“I’ve always found wildlife very calming-- except when animals are eating each other, of course.”
“When people cared about each other, they always found a way to make it work.”
“Life is literally a process of one creature eating another, whether it’s bacteria breaking down plants or animals, plants strangling each other, animals going for the throat, or viruses attacking animals. “All of nature is a conjugation of the verb ‘to eat,’” in the words of William Ralph Inge.”
“What I’ve found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany’s. It calms me down right away, the quiteness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there”
“One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.”
“When you meet a pretty teenage girl, make a beeline for the mother. I’ve found it to be usually very rewarding.”