Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?

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.

Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.

God created us so that His love, beauty, perfection, and harmony would be seen through us.

Aligning yourself with spiritual ideals that are bigger than you brings true emotional stability.

I don't know why this is, maybe because I am 33 or what, but I didn't think it would be that easy for me to get pregnant. But it was.

God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.

It's anticipated that Hurricane Rita will still be a Category 3 storm when it hits Port Arthur.

My kids get very upset with me when I leave to do film work, but they have a lot of patience with me when I leave to do environmental work.

Choose satisfaction over salary. Better to be happy with little than miserable with much.

So false is faction, and so smooth a liar, As that it never had a side entire.

Also CSPAN is really the great treasure of the media as far as getting information.