I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

As a kid, I sensed history going on all around me, but the basic thrust of it didn't move me.

I have to say, music was always my self preservation survival technique. This sort of sacred space in my life and in my mind.

The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.

Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

My big break was back in the third grade playing the third monkey in 'Horton Hears a Who.

Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.