The whole idea of being in captivity in such limited space, especially in a zoo, causes elephants to suffer. They develop all kinds of foot diseases. They die. They get cysts. Not only is it painful, it eventually kills them.

Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.

I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe.

The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year-everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.

My politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.

I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won't.