...for everything has a trace of the divine in it.

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.

Never forget your past.

Perhaps grown women are beings of a good deal more complexity than cats

I do have faith in humanity but I don’t have faith in humans.

The only way you can become brave is, going through the fear but not going away from it.

Some drink from the fountain of knowledge - others just gargle.

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree.

I don't think I've done anything important or magnificent. I'm a worker, and the thing I prefer in my life is cinema. When I'm working in cinema, I'm happy. And that's all, you know?

The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.

I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.