We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.

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 you can not be a poet, be the poem.

To find yourself different than others, you must believe, behave and act differently.

Your toaster’s a puff.

Ngila Dixon is such an incredible costume designer. She's such a cool, stylish woman. She has such an understanding of character.

I think our insecurities are our biggest challenges, and we all have them. Trust me, I've got plenty of my own.

The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book.

The internet has made possible a frightening practice of threats and intimidation - threats of unspeakable violence and death.

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

There was a male sketch group in my college. I was like why isn't there a female sketch group? So then I started doing sketch comedy and all that stuff. It just happened.