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

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.

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.

I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

Late to bed, late to rise, command like hell and monetize.

Why destroy this Morn, by a Past that is dead & Gone and a Future not yet Born! - RVM.

And the cobwebs of timewould surrender, dormant, so that the rainbowsof new eras can emergeDespite the hollownessof you.

Life has taught me one big lesson, always keep the girlies guessing.

I believe people are genuinely good. I don’t like to see the bad in people, so because of that, I could see myself falling into a bad situation. But thankfully, I haven’t yet.

I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see

I really believe that God and religion is two different things.

The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

Never underestimate the enemy, above all if he is a stupid one and deserves to be killed.