In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match. - Yann Martel

If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.

I explore it now in the only place left for it, my memory.

"God is universal," spluttered the priest.
The imam nodded strong approval. "There is only one God."
"And with their one god Muslims are always causing troubles and provoking riots. The proof of how bad Islam is, is how uncivilized Muslims are,: pronounced the pandit.
"Says the slave-driver of the cast system," huffed the imam. "Hindus enslave people and worship dressed-up dolls."
"They are golden calf lovers. They kneel before the cows," the priest chimed in.
"While Christians kneel before a white man! They are flunkies of a foreign god. They are nightmare of all nonwhite people.