It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

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.

Hold dear and true friends close to your heart, it matters not where you find them, only that you treat them with love and respect always.

Travel on your define path.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free I was not alone. There were others who felt the same way.

I'd rather write great songs because the word "commercial" is so subjective

Id like to do an action film or a dark sort of independent piece.

Humility feels that there is someone, somewhere who can do anything I can do better - except one thing: no one can be better at being me.

How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

The reason men rule is because women let them.

The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

I think Ian likes you too much