Time is an illusion that makes us all pant.

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.

Humiliation is the only ladder to honoring God's Kingdom.

Every way he turned, his past was detonated, revealing tunnels and alternative routes under the packed, settled earth of the present.

Let's face it: It's difficult enough to be funny without worrying about what is going to offend whom.

A philosopher is a sort of intellectual yokel who gawks at things that sensible people take for granted.

In Washington, when you’re a leader, you have to put aside partisan politics to do what’s right for the people.

I do not know why anyone would host an awards show. No matter how unbelievably well you do at it, the only thing that can happen is you get asked again to host an awards show.

I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.

The tendency for politicians to claim credit for favorable news is as natural as flatulence in cows.

Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with 'reality,' next to the 'real' world.