Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.

Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.

I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].

I'd go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself...I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day.

When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.

A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all animals.

Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.

Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.

Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

One night I was layin' down, I heard Papa talkin' to Mama, I heard Papa say to let that boy boogie-woogie.'Cause it's in him and it's got to come out.

In our thoughts, we hold the key to our feelings. In our minds, we hold the key to love.

I will not go back. No bad thing for me to die. I will make it happen so that it happens only once.

If there is only nothingness after death, what’s the point of this world?

As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

At Calvary, there was a great healing transfer where the responsibility for healing was switched from God giving it, to you receiving it.

Let the League of Nations say whatever it pleases, let America offer whatever interference, let China decry Japan's action at the top of her voice, but Japan must adhere to her course unswervingly.

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince.