I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.

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.

Angie: "How do I pitch these ideas to her?"Mira: "From a distance, preferably wearing body armor.

It was strange that one couldn’t know in advance which places one was later going to wish to remember.

Life is funny and we are really funny, especially when we get to be hoity toity; we can be so ridiculous. Life is fun.

Christ's mission is to release the divine into our conscious knowing. He awakens the impulse in humanity to rise above his lower nature and be aware of his higher nature that dwells within.

When we step on the battlefield, I will be The First Boots On and the Last Boots Off.

You come here to Anfield, you stand there and listen to that crowd, and it's the greatest sight in football.

Having played in Boston will help me a ton moving to New York.

When you live under the power of terror and segregation, you can't ever start a work of art.

You know what they say, dress your best when you go to bed because you don't know who you'll see in your dreams.

I'm the most carefree mo'fo' in the world.