I have a story that will make you believe in God.

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.

There is a difference between speaking the truth in love and judging someone hypocritically...make sure you know the difference before you speak!

Poetry is not a mere expression of a poet's self, but an enchantment, a spell of the muse, the inspiration. Poetry is thus magic and magic is poetry.

But cannot we live as though we always loved? It was this that the saints and heroes did

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

Our loving Heavenly Father wants us to become more like him. God understands that we get there not in an instant, but by taking one step at a time.

While I made a splash, rappers came and passed But still I ask myself: how long does famous last?

Anytime I can go fly for a few hours, I go. It's stressful and stress-relieving at the same time.

It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?

I actually got stabbed at my friend's bachelor party. In real life.

I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.