Religion?" Mr Kumar grinned broadly. "I don't believe in religion. Religion is darkness.

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.

Positive thoughts shape a positive world.

We contend that ideas and/or practices may be scriptural as long as they are not condemned by scripture.

I'm told that my blood sugar level was twelve times the legal limit - I was sweating honey.

Like the truth, retirement can set you free. Or, like work, retirement can imprison you.

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

Having a fantasy come true doesn't always mean it will be permanent.

Virality isn't luck. It's not magic. And it's not random. There's a science behind why people talk and share. A recipe. A formula, even.

People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that.

Man went into a bar, he only had one arm. Guy sitting next to him said 'Hey, you've got your sleeve in my drink', man replied, 'There's no arm in it'

Chess is intellectual gymnastics.