Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.

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 know a beautiful soul when I feel one. The empath in me honors the authentic in you.

it tooklosing himto finally findmyself.It tooklosing hima second timeto be sureof myself.thatwas myfirst actofself-love.

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.

Sometimes, as in a game of chess, we must strategically regress so that we might progress toward our ultimate objective.

Doing, not learning to do, is the essence of entrepreneurship.

Love is like fire, a dangerous thing to play with, although the best of friends and the most loyal of servants when rightly handled.

The Simple Life is not a simple life.

As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

Rest easy and go with the faith you lived with