It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.

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.

I will toil under sun for what I want.

What adjective can be used for a nation who is consistently fooled, recurrently deceived by the crafty politicians? Goofy? Very light! Fool? Not enough! Brainless? Yes, that is the very adjective!

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

Iran is the only country around the negotiating table that has not been attacked by either al-Qaida or Daesh.

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.

Just as all the world loves a lover, it has been my experience that all the world loves a trailerite.