The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

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.

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

There are women who are wishing that they were that piece of tape right now.

How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.

For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.

Scars crossed her welded wrists.

I'm a Bookchinite, and nobody has a right to claim that but me.

One of the first items of Congressional business in 2006 will be an effort to renew the USA Patriot Act.

I am interested in the loneliness and isolation that we can feel when we hide feelings we are ashamed of, especially if they concern people that we love.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

Once you accept an idea, it's an idea whose time has come.