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Pigeon racing is a lousy, greedy, and often unlawful activity. One thing that it is not is kind to birds.

When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if there was a pigeon. Now I can face off with a pigeon.

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.

I love the pigeons. I just raise them, period, and feed them. Pigeons go away, and they always come back. You get a touch of freedom, and then they are free to come back to you. I love the idea of pigeons.

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.

Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.