The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

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.

Lineation can make your break your poems.

Freedom is indivisible. As soon as one starts to restrict it, one enters upon a decline on which it is difficult to stop.

What is the hardest, but best thing in life? Love <3

Do not do that which you would not have known.

Elvis is English, and climbs the hills. Can't tell the bullshit from the lies.

In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident.

Attachment is the source of all suffering.

The success of God's Word in our lives is linked intrinsically to our application of its truth.

Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.