Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.

Christianity is a religion in a rush.

If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

There are animals we haven't stopped by. Don't think they're harmless. Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.