The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.

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

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.

I can only tell my story, what you believe is up to you.

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.

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

...if you fall into a lion's pit, the reason the lion will tear you to pieces is not because it's hungry-be assured, zoo animals are amply fed-or because it's bloodthirsty, but because you've invaded it's territory.