The Zoo Where You're Fed to God Quotes

“Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.”
― Michael Ventura, The Zoo Where You're Fed to God

“All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.”
― Michael Ventura, The Zoo Where You're Fed to God

“They think I may be dangerous, and I am, but not in the way they fear. I have tasted of Paradise. Not because I wanted to. I didn't want to. But it has borne down upon me and there is no escaping it any more. All Things Are Possible. It bears down upon everyone and we run from it as hard as we can and many manage to keep it at bay, but I have not, I am condemned, now, never.... to settle... for the lesser.... ever... again. And yes, that makes me a dangerous man.

They think I have become one of the wild animals at the zoo, and I have become one of the wild animals at the zoo.

This is a great day.”
― Michael Ventura, The Zoo Where You're Fed to God

“Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.”
― Michael Ventura, The Zoo Where You're Fed to God

“It may be that it is not given to us to know when we are angels. We may only be given to know when others are. This may be one of the reasons we need each other so.”
― Michael Ventura, The Zoo Where You're Fed to God

“He became a surgeon because he was afraid of knives. He got married because he was afraid of women. He had a child because he was afraid of responsibility. Now, his marriage over and his child no longer speaking to him, he turned off all the lights in the house because he was afraid of the dark”
― Michael Ventura, The Zoo Where You're Fed to God

“In joy, our choices may appear to be few, but one's responses are anything but confined, they're inspired, expanded.”
― Michael Ventura, The Zoo Where You're Fed to God

“Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won.”
― Michael Ventura, The Zoo Where You're Fed to God

“Is this where they will be when they are no more among us? On this savannah in the sleep of men and women? Will children, in a thousands years, dream of the cheetah, of the elephant, as children now dream of dragons? Mammals began in the time of the dinosaurs. That's why the dragon is so strong an image to us: the first mammals, the first warm blooded creatures, the first capable of love as we know it, as we and the chimpanzee and the tiger know it, those first mammals' brains were seared so deeply by the image of the enormous dinosaurs that even millions of years of evolution later that image lived in the human dream as dragons - lived thus before archeologists began to unearth the fossils. So one day we will find the giraffe on the savannah of dream.”
― Michael Ventura, The Zoo Where You're Fed to God

“A hundred years ago behavior was explained by one shelf of books, now it's explained by a different shelf of books, and in a hundred years they'll explain it differently again.”
― Michael Ventura, The Zoo Where You're Fed to God

“She would never feel conspiratorial with a male in authority, and there were moments when therapist and client needed to feel they were sharing a conspiracy.”
― Michael Ventura, The Zoo Where You're Fed to God

“Lions and tigers have almost identical skeletons.”
― Michael Ventura, The Zoo Where You're Fed to God

“Much of the terror of death is terror of dying without having given. Without even finding what one has to give.”
― Michael Ventura, The Zoo Where You're Fed to God