“the story of love and vanity are always as though as ice and heat”

“I was walking after opportunities in my life, but I forgot that every second of my life is an opportunity.”

“some time a big event could not make you happy, but some time a small gift can change the geography of your face.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”