We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.

Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.

Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

The age of a child is inversely correlated with the size of the animals it prefers.

You should not be misled about the so-called single opposition candidate. There are so many of them now that you will lack the fingers to count them.

The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius.

You are what you think.

We have to be cognizant of the fact that they've had foreign fighters coming to volunteer for them, foreign money, foreign weapons, so we have to make this the top priority.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

When I was young, I loved black men.

Art is nothing if you don't reach every segment of the people.

A resourceful person will always make opportunity fit his or her needs.

Personally I kept my feelings out of it and created a fantasy. That's the process of going through this world being beautiful.

Rock 'n' roll is sexuality personified.