“The way the snowflakes float like tiny featherstheres an elegance to it. I could watch for hours. Its hypnotic. It reminds me of the feeling I get when I stand on the beach, watching the waves. Im ...”

“I would love to think that the essence of who we are continues after we die. Maybe our soul moves on somehow, and eventually we are reborn. Or maybe, we get absorbed into god like a drop of water i...”

“They spent years putting the tiniest of details on these works of art. It reminded me of what we try to do with ourselves. We spend years trying to paint our personalities to look a certain way or ...”

“Its still hard to live in a foreign country with unfamiliar people, even when youre with the person you love. I dont have any roots or history of my own here. A person needs their history around th...”

“A smile, like the poet's muse,Inspires passion in the lover's heart”

“An adventure is nothing but a story. After the adventure ends, its nothing but a memory; a shadow of a life you lived. People will envy you for the time it takes you to tell the story. But after th...”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!”

“Halfway home, the sky goes from dark gray to almost black and a loud thunder snap accompanies the first few raindrops that fall. Heavy, warm, big drops, they drench me in seconds, like an overturne...”

“For the rest of my life, Zanzibar will be the Swahili word for rain. The rain would drizzle, spit, mist, downpour, shower, torrent, gust, deluge and blast. At one point it hit the ground so hard it...”