“I would have to hide in the jungle and live wild amoung the pandas”

“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.”

“Spiritual growth is more than a procedure; it’s a wild search for God in the tangled jungle of our souls.”

“If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.”

“Her lips remind me of kite strings and I find myself thinking about panda bears. Panda bears do not fly kites, I tell myself. 'I thought you were dead,' she says.Maybe if you taped a kite to a panda paw and scared the panda so that it started running, the kite might start to lift off.”

“What is an adventure? That depends on where you are starting from. Little girls in your country, they hide in the gap between the washing machine and the refrigerator and they make believe they are in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around them. Me and my sister, we used to hide in a gap in the jungle, with green snakes and monkeys all around us, and make believe that we had a washing machine and a refrigerator. You live in a world of machines and you dream off things with beating hearts. We dream of machines, because we see where beating hearts have left us.”