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.

Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far.

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?

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