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When someone insults me, I simply shut down. Then I open back up at 9 am the next morning.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

What is man’s shared IQ? And more important, how thick should my body armor be to protect myself against it?

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

A tie is a win for more than one person. But a tie is also a loss equally shared by two or more people.


A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

I opened my wallet and gave him a coupon, hoping he’d open his wallet and give me money.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

My favorite tree is the Joshua tree, which is named after me. Well, it will be, once I change my name to Joshua.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

On the card I wrote, “Thinking of you,” and the picture was of my erect penis. I hope my local congressman got it OK.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

In my dream, the passenger seat of my car was a toilet. I guess I was on my way to pick up a politician.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

There’s a faint whiff of feces wafting up my nostrils. But that’s natural, because I just walked past a politician.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

Some wise guys came by my business establishment and tried to offer me neighborhood protection. They weren’t mafia, but they were wearing togas.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

When you pay for security, it seems like you’re paying for nothing—and that’s the point. You’re paying so nothing happens. Safety is the absence of something.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

I’m into older women, because all women are older women. Every second the woman you love is an older woman.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

My reputation precedes me. It shows up about fifteen minutes before I do, eats, and then leaves without paying or tipping.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

The locked door in my house is just a diversion. The real valuable items are out in the open, where they are hidden from the unimaginative.

A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

The leg system of the beach animals works because of a combination of certain lengths of tubes. Because of the proportion of lengths, the animals walk smoothly. You could say that this range of numbers is their genetic code.

Theo Jansen

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.

Leo Tolstoy

There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between hum...

Gary L. Francione

You could think of an ecosystem as a bunch of antagonistic arms races, almost: Everything that an animal depends upon for food is the body part of some other animal or plant who would just as soon keep that body part for itself.

Steven Pinker

I grew up in a family of filmmakers, so I always wanted to make films about animals, especially comical films. Something about animals amuses me. And they have a great mystery. It's the same mystique some people might feel looking at the stars or the...

Isabella Rossellini

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

Igor Stravinsky

Horses are prey animals, and most of the other animals that I've shot are predators. If you act mellow with predators, they know that they can kill you, so they are cool, but if you work with prey, they think that you're going to kill them at any mom...

Jill Greenberg

Meat production is one of the leading causes of climate change because of the destruction of the rainforest for grazing lands, the massive amounts of methane produced by farm animals and the huge amounts of water, grain and other resources required t...

Jane Velez-Mitchell