The worst pair of opposites is boredom and terror. Sometimes your life is a pendulum swing from one to the other.

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.

The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.

My court was divided between peace and war according to their various interests, but I considered only their reasons.

On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?

The goal of a successful trader is to make the best trades. Money is secondary.

What kind of man would live a life without daring? Is life so sweet that we should criticize men that seek adventure? Is there a better way to die?

The blessing of life as a wholecan never be found in work.

There's only so many times you can read how ugly you are and how much people hate you.

I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.

The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears.

Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody.