We are cynical about our own species, but less so about animals, especially wild ones. We might not shelter them from habitat destruction, but we do … - Yann Martel

Without a driver this bus is lost. Our lives are over. Come aboard if your destination is oblivion - it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat, if you want. But it's a sad view.

Things didn't turn out the way they used to, but what can you do? You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. ... The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity — it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.