Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.

You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.

What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?

So be patient. Do not compromise. And give your destiny time to find you.

The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.

To have that powder blown up your nose is rather like being shot out of a rifle barrel lined with Baroque paintings and landing on a sea of electricity.

We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and, by the very nature of their enterprises, leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated. What's more, in granting such mining concessions, often initially for trivial sums to speculators from distant cities, companies cobbled together with less history than my dog, the government places no cultural or market value on the land itself.