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

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.

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.

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.

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

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

Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.

Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.

I can kick your head off, but I can't, like, play a stupid little video game.

death was the price of life.

A warrior can be injured but not offended. For a warrior there is nothing offensive about the acts of her fellow human beings, as long as she herself is acting in the proper mood.

God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.

Half the people in the world have never made a phone call... half.