Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.

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.

O LORD GOD let thy glory fill the earth as it is in heaven.

The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

The subtlest beauties in our life are unseen and unheard.

If guns kill people, I can blame misspelled words on my pencil.

What do you mean, I'm a wild front man! I'm jumping all over, I do the dance moves.

Going for a walk is always helpful for me. I also love gratitude exercises.

It is hard to look back and talk about a set of disjointed experiences as though they were part of one smooth progression.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.