I think like the species I am studying, whatever it is. If I am watching a lizard, I become the lizard. Gazing ath the water at a pike, I become the pike.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.

Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.

Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

you know, a daydream properly utilized can be the most powerful force in the universe. One need only dream of freedom to begin to break the spell of enslavement.

Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.

Look, this is helping me out quite a bit, but could you just get to the punishment part? We're at the end of World War Two in history, and I can't wait to find out who wins.

The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.

Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith.

President Lincoln called upon Americans to speak with one voice and one heart. That's just what we have to do.

I'm not out to prove anything to anybody.

Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

Definitely giving it my heart and soul from my life as I see it. That whole album [My Brother] is like that, that's how I feel.