It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.

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.

your moods and colors are my climate, not the changing face of the sky

I wasn't used to guys making me blush, and I wasn't sure why he even was making me blush.

I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father.

Art you can flush down the loo means nothing to me, even were the loo to be selected by Marcel Duchamp

As your love grows, you will find that your attachment to this world will begin to fall away.

From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.

Why are the ones who are too good to be true always being true to someone else?

I am rich and famous. I have a talented and gorgeous husband and two beautiful children. I could go on.

Deconstruction: peering suspiciously at the text, I wait for it to make a slip and betray itself.

There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.