To me nature is... spiders and bugs, and big fish eating little fish, and plants eating plans, and animals eating... It's like an enormous restaurant, that's the way I see it.

Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest.

Do I believe in God? I did until Mother's accident. She fell on some meat loaf and it penetrated her spleen.

Enthusiasm is a good engine, but it needs intelligence for a driver.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Even if God exists, he's done such a terrible job, it's a wonder people don't get together and file a class action suit against him.

Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo.