Psychologists now recognize that the need in some people to have a dozen cats is really a sublimated desire to have two dozen cats. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there. – Casare Pavese