Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.

Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.

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

It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.