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!

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.

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 turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.

It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad

You don't need to think deeply before reaching out to the excuses to give. Just lose interest in it and you gain excuses at no cost!

...with a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are" is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.

The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.

We have all in some degree become anarchistic.

How was I ever going to fight the blurring lines in our relationship when I enjoyed being with him so much?