Isn’t it ironic, Richard Parker? We’re in hell yet still we’re afraid of immortality - Yann Martel

We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It is not the question of courage. It is something constitutional, an ability to let go. It maybe nothing more than life-hungry stupidity.

It's amazing how willpower can build walls.

I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?