“Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread.”

It’s strange how so much life can be lived without speaking

The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum.

Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I’ve mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes.

A supreme motivation to create or do something special. To win for love.

There’s no better way to become a disintegrated character than to be your own authority.

I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream…and life continues.

We learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

Mankind have banned the Divinity from their presence; they have relegated him to a sanctuary; the walls of the temple restrict his view; he does not exist outside of it.

Diversity, that is my motto.

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

Cities at daybreak are no one’s, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.