“The question, then, was how long could a human being stay awake? Keith Richards could party for three days straight, but I wasn't sure if he counted as a human being.”
“He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day.”
“How vast was a human being's capacity for suffering. The only thing you could do was stand in awe of it. It wasn't a question of survival at all. It was the fullness of it, how much could you hold, how much could you care.”
“How could the Buddha have believed that being incarnated as a human being was fortunate? Had he ever been to Georgia?”
“How could I possibly gone this long without the touch of another human being? I've been living my life like a zombie”
“So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.”