The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

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.

If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Shadows of doubt will always fall behind you when you keep your face towards the sunshine. Believe in God

Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.

Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!

New songs are why artists go on the road. That's why I go on the road. It's a three-prong play. Writing: You're intrigued. Recording: It brings it to life. And then you want to share it.

Power is only important as an instrument for service to the powerless.

No one aspires as a child to grow up and enter into a domestic partnership. But they do aspire as children to grow up and be married.

Trust and reputation are not discretionary. They are as necessary in business as the people in whom they reside.

I like to deconstruct things, deconstruct genres and stories.