Repetition is important in the training not only of animals but also of humans.

Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic.

It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.