If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

For this is what we do. Put one foot forward and then the other. Lift our eyes to the snarl and smile of the world once more. Think. Act. Feel. Add our little consequence to the tides of good and evil that flood and drain the world. Drag our shadowed crosses into the hope of another night. Push our brave hearts into the promise of a new day. With love; the passionate search for truth other than our own. With longing; the pure, ineffable yearning to be saved. For so long as fate keeps waiting, we live on.

Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.

The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.