...animals don't escape from somewhere but from something

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.

HAPPINESS is something when you stop overthinking everything. Let all flow

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.

Never underestimate the healing power of breath.

For in this walk, this voyage, it is yourself, the profound history of your 'self,' that now as always you encounter.

Our editor came to work today in a vibrant pink shirt. Vibrant. Several members of staff have had to go home sick.

In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.

I'm just an enormous British comedy fan.