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.

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.

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.

The night is the balm for the wounded souls of the world.

The human organism is built for tension and relaxation, work and sleep. The principle of life is rhythm.

But was any future, anyone's future, unfraught by hazards of some sort? The only security was death. So long as one wanted to go on living on had to accept the risks. Well, she accepted them...

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Experience really does make you better, man.

I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.

We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.

I love not being in charge of writing all the songs, and being the front person - the whole thing is cool.

I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch.

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things.