To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. - Yann Martel

Come aboard if your destination is oblivion - it should be our next stop.

For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.

Of hunger and thirst, thirst is the greater imperative.