A heroin-thin boy with enough rings in his eyebrows to resemble a shower curtain rod.

Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had.

Every life has a soundtrack.

Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

If you don't know there's an alternative, you can't miss it

When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.