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

[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past; the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present; and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.

I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.

The world isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?