Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.

Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

The age of a child is inversely correlated with the size of the animals it prefers.

If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand times guilty.

Life is full of little surprises.Time travel is full of big ones.

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

Just know that I was once considered just a dreamer... Then I paid my dues and turned so many doubters to believers.

Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

The brooding is better than the joy because even if the heart fills with happiness, it still mourns.

The idea of a Japanese comedian was not only a rarity, it was non-existent.

When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was looking forward from then on.

Running all my different companies has turned out to be a lot easier because I mediate twice a day and go to yoga every day.

I realized that what was most important to me was following my own path, and not the one laid down for me by others.