The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.

Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.

Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.

The age of a child is inversely correlated with the size of the animals it prefers.

Money can only used to buy man-made goods.

And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds - large, light, and fugitive.

Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused

Achieving the MDGs is not optional; it is an essential investment in a safer, more human and prosperous world

Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie anymore.

It's not the things we get but the hearts we touch that will determine our success in life.

I really never even seriously considered a book but a few years ago someone approached me out of the blue and I said I would think about it.

My aim is a very modern Dior, but at the end of the day, I also look back.

It's bad if we are controlled, but if we're not, it can be even worse.

Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.