You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!

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.

When have I ever given him the impression that I was okay with him just stopping by whenever he wanted to use my body as an organic garbage disposal?

I am a Soul sharing the Purity and Gift of my Soul - with the Souls of Others.

I may not have all the time I thought I had.

There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.

I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.

We have no intention of shutting down plants. We have always said there will be no redundancies or lay-offs as a result of this merger.

I am who I am, I enjoy life in my own way and that is hell of a lot more than most people can say for themselves

It’s not over if you’re still here,” Chronicler said. “It’s not a tragedy if you’re still alive.

You can chose if you want to be imagined or remembered.

Leave it to you, Bella. Anyone else would be better off when the vampires left town. But you have to start hanging out with the first monsters you can find.