“I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know t...” — John James Audubon Quote

“I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.”

“To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art.”

“The Carrion Crow and Turkey-Buzzard possess great power of recollection, so as to recognise at a great distance a person who has shot at them, and even the horse on which he rides.”

“Non-human primates spend hours a day grooming each other. And with humans, touching is also important. It's a way to form bonds and connect in modern society. But you can also speed up the use of conscious purposes once you're aware of that, and it can be manipulated.”

“Though I was aware that the success rate in film industry was one percent and how difficult it was to survive, I wanted to try my luck as an actor.”

“I was aware of that theme of mortality in my music since around 2009. The decaying and the disappearance of the piano sound is very much symbolic of life and mortality. It's not sad. I just meditate about it.”