Just do it. Get it down on the page. Work hard. And then let go. Ask yourself why you want to write. You have to be clear about that.

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.

A sensitivity is a true beauty of a woman

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream it may be so the moment after death.

Our culture is just too comfortable in creating these kind of divisions between culture.

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

I just never really gave myself any credit. And because of that, nobody else did either. You mirror what the world mirrors to you.

Some people think they have discernment when actually they are just suspicious. Suspicion comes out of the unrenewed mind; discernment comes out of the renewed spirit.

I've always known that I'm a little out of vogue.

Every one of us strives to be a better person; and if I am to contribute one thing of myself, it would be compassion.

There can be no joy in living without joy in work.