Humans. Sometimes they make chimps look smart.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.

When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.

Death's gruesome face taunts: soulless eyes, crimson grimace. I really hate clowns.

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

I think that in many ways, just as forgiveness is impossible without love, sometimes love requires forgiveness for it to work, too.

Her eyes hold the pale moon in them, the way a still pond holds stars.

Pain is life. Life is pain.

Old age is a powerful disguise.

Mosquitoes are the greatest mass murderers on planet Earth.

It doesn't take talent to work hard.

I wanna be drunk when I wake up, on the right side of the wrong bed.

We've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.

the next morning, fang and i broke up. now let me get this strait, i broke up with him. a split second after he broke up with me.

I love to work. You want to talk about natural highs? There's nothing like it.

The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.

And love was creation's source,creation's ruler; but all love's ways are strewn with blossoms and blood, blossoms and blood.

The best-run churches and organizations are masters of the midcourse correction. They plan in pencil.

The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.