He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.

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.

There are people whose suffering makes them take their mind off other things in life

I love being in my garden. I don't plant a lot of exotic flora, but I do spend a lot of time outside doing manual labour.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

If you go down to Texas, people are real proud about and they rep Texas.

We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true.

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

He bared his teeth in a happy feral grin. My own personal psycho.

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery

Ask yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here. Ask yourself: What time is it? Answer: Now. Say it until you can hear it.

The obstacle is the USA administration. I know there is a strong Israeli lobby in America, no doubt of it.