Lay off with the ‘You reason, so you don’t feel’ stuff, please. I feel, but I also think about what I feel. When people say we should only feel […] I am reminded of Göring, who said ‘I think with my blood.’ See where it led him.

J. M. Coetzee and Amy Gutmann, The lives of animals, Princeton, N.J Chichester, 1999, p. 89