I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.

How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

A zoo is not an ideal place for an animal - of course the best place for a chimp is the wilds of Tanzania - but a good zoo is a decent, acceptable place. Animals are far more flexible than we realize. IF they weren't, they wouldn't have survived. But my opinion about zoos came after research. Initially I had the opinion that most people have, that they are jails.

Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.