You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.

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

It's amazing how willpower can build walls.

Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.

Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.