“I think that both our lives and the potential directions our lives may go are predestined. By using our free will in making our life choices, we do nothing else but picking up one of many already p...”

“... for miracles to happen, God, need our cooperation. As Pastor Charles once told me, God can throw us a rope to save us, but we have to hold to it.”

“I will never again look at the homeless people the way I did before entering Bowery Mission.”

“Not maybe. Definitely! We have an expression back home in Haiti, which says something like a man who is thinking with his penis. That is what you are Michael. That doesnt mean that you are addicted...”

“You know, Michael, Pastor Charles would often tell him, some men get high on drugs and make a mess while they are high; others get drunk and behave like animals while under the influence of alcohol...”

“Did you ever think about writing memoirs? You are a writer, and it may be interesting for people to read your story."I hate memoirs. But I am sure I will write a book about the Bowery Mission, Mich...”

“Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is mean...”

“Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and littl...”

“A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.”

“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”

“Dont cry and dont rage. Understand.”

“The only way to heal yourself was to understand. Understand the love or the hate or the cowardice, or the impulsiveness, the lack of will of the one who hurt you--the circumstances that twisted the...”