You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

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.

What is the use of having an imagination if you can't make it work for you?

Her suspicion brings me a small sense of gratification. She thinks I'm lying about something. Now we're even.Lake

Conflict avoidance often causes greater conflict.

Uninvited guests seldom meet a welcome.

Football is a simple game made complicated by people who should know better.

I have an ElliptiGO. It's a standup bicycle. You don't pedal; you stride on it. It allows me to have the same striding motion as running without the impact.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.

I want to read a lot of books and not live lazily. I want to become intellectual.

Foreign policy can mean several things, not only foreign policy in the narrow sense. It can cover foreign policy, relations with the developing world, and enlargement as well.