This boy wore the ocean in his eyes, green-gray-blue, ever shifting, and I recognized him immediately. Knew before he said another word that he was as dangerous as he was beautiful.

Beneath the vast diamond sky, I felt both all important and utterly significant, the goddess and the damned in equal measure.

There was that sense of abandoning the familiar for the unknown that characterizes all journeys made for the first time.

As long as they don't know, I am safe

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.

Since the whole village was poor, we didnt realize our own poverty. I was happy.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

The problem is not merely man against man or nation against nation. It is man against war.

You have visits, then you have disappearances. You enter, then you exit. You come, you go. It would be so great if you could just get to human enlightenment on a linear path.

Reality is the original Rorschach.

I was never tomboyish. I loved Barbies. It's just the way I grew up.

Real action and true helpfulness are perhaps the ultimate charm.