I screeched with frustration, which in hindsight is never okay when there are people trying to kill you.

Every part of life changes with every breath we take. If you don’t like where your story is headin’, you fight your fate with everything you have.

After everything, you still want to believe that love prevails, that in the end there will be justice. That is an illusion, and I pity you.

I was sick of the body count that existed around my family. It seemed statistically that eventually the body count would include my family.

Her name is Emmilina. She is quite eccentric and was Thomas’s best friend.

Losing one pint of blood's an accident. Losing two is carelessness.

Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?

I like my whisky old and my women young.

Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.

The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned. The Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings.

When I am tanned and in shape I feel confident about my appearance.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

The bullshit never ends. That’s the main thing to remember. It never ends.

May the optimism of tomorrow be your foundation for today.