Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.

We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.

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.

For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?

A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.