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

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.

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.

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.

So this, Harriet thought, gazing at her black-clad reflection, was what bearing up looked like. The eyes in the mirror stared at her, somehow, while fixing themselves far

History is too slow for our life, for our hearts.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

Two weeks ago we couldn't pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we're sending you all these scripts.

If we all had all we wanted to eat, we'd crap too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.

Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels.

There is more in Mersenne than in all the universities together.

The physical world is meaningless tonight And there is no other.

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.

So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.