I turned around, stepped over the Zebra and threw myself overboard.

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.

I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?

science can only take you so far and then you have to leap

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.