"Doesn't it always boil down to pain?"
- Francisco X. Stork
"My father looks at me the way he is looking at my mother in one of their wedding pictures: like he can't believe that she is with him now and will be with him forever, that she has chosen to be with h..."
"How did Ixtel become real for me? The world is full of Ixtels who I can help without hurting my father. Why this one? How was it her suffering that touched me? Father. I feel connected to her through ..."
"If I told you that God speaks to us through our urges so long as these are safe and proper and totally civilized and don't hurt anyone, what would I be saying? If I told you longing is okay as long as..."
"You always do this to people?""Do what?""Get them to empty their guts out just like that.""We do not have much time. We should only talk about what is important."
"For all the pain I saw at Paterson, it is nothing compared to the pain that people inflict upon each other in the real world. All I can think of now is that it is not right for me to be unaware of tha..."
"1. Who is a Death Warrior?Anyone can be a Death Warrior, not just someone who is terminally ill. We are all terminally ill. A Death Warrior accepts death and makes a commitment to live a certain way, ..."
"There's two of me. The person I carry around like a dead carcass inside of me and the one I show to others."
"It's a sadness that has been knocking at my door for a long time, and I finally let it in."
"If only customs were logical. If only the rules were as simple as "Don't do anything that will hurt others." If that were the only rule, I’d have at least a fifty percent chance of getting it right. I..."