Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that's what the consultant said I had.

My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.

If no man could become rich in Peru, no man could become poor.

I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.

I knew I could make it in Cebu, but I never thought I could make it in Manila.

A thought is harmless unless we believe it. It’s not our thoughts, but our attachment to our thoughts, that causes suffering. Attaching to a thought means believing that it’s true, without inquiring. A belief is a thought that we’ve been attaching to, often for years.