He seems to be attracting religions the way a dog attracts fleas.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.

I know this, the Federal Reserve is private and the I.R.S. is screwing us.

There are always things that I think I wish I could have done better.

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.

I realised the amazing power of literature and of the human imagination generally: to make the dead live and to stop the living from dying.

As societies become more complex in structure and resources, the need of formal or intentional teaching and learning increases.

We don't want to keep secrets anymore.

If you take pride in your attainment or become discouraged because of your idealistic effort, your practice will confine you by a thick wall.

In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.