You sometimes hear older human beings telling their children about cunning foxes or clever foxes. This one wasn't cunning. It stood there, like the stupidest dog, waiting for me to come off the wall. Oh yes, Reynard! Very likely, isn't it, that I am going to jump down into your jaws.
— Stray
"Foxes' hearts are broken and filled with pain. The pain transforms into cunning. And the cunning of a fox will break any man's heart."
— Basho, The Night of the Rabbit
“YOU HAVE LEARNED WELL FROM ME! LEARNED WELL LIKE A FOX WHO WENT TO SCHOOL AND DID WELL AND THEN WENT TO COLLEGE”
