Death’s gruesome face taunts:soulless eyes, crimson grimace.I really hate clowns.

Anger only gets in the way.

Anger is precious. A silverback uses his anger to maintain order and warn his troop of danger. When my father beat his chest, it was to say, Beware, listen, I am in charge. I am...

Memories are precious … they help tell us who we are.

Ax-man. Cardboard isn’t one of the major food groups, remember?”-Marco

Give me liberty or give me death.’ A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer Earth that humans said things like that. I wonder if...

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

My family tree spreads wide as well. I am a great ape, and you are a great ape, and so are chimpanzees and orangutans and bonobos, all of us distant and distrustful cousins.I know this...

Growing up gorilla is just like any other kind of growing up. You make mistakes. You play. You learn. You do it all over again.

Jake, our fearless leader. On a crazed kamikaze mission. I’d never seen him like this. Even in our lowest moments, he’d always been steady. Resolute. He weighed the costs, made a decision, forged ahead.And I’d...

Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade ship.

My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.The glass says you are this and we are that...

Love is alcohol.

We talked about talking. (We had been interrupting Ms. Diz a lot). She said that when someone is talking, you listen with your ears.And save your questions for the end.Then you use your mouth.Even if...

If you’re stuck you could always double up with me at my place. It’s the size of a postage stamp, but the roses are the size of poodles. So it sort of evens out.” -Austin

Up to me. Great. I could hurt my mom and my sisters, or I could hurt my dad. Perfect. Isn’t divorce fun?