Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.

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.

Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

For the most part, the American film market has become very corporatised, even independent film to a degree, and because of the corporate management mentality, they want to take the safe way.

When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving.

Walk lightly through life.

Poor people have sh*tty lobbyists.

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.