“No one can help me find answers, least of all someone who claims he's found a solution to life.”

“When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.”

“The native calls the baobab 'the devil tree' because he claims that the devil, getting tangled in its branches, punished by the tree by reversing it. To the native, the roots are branches now, and the branches are roots. To ensure that there would be no more baobabs, the devil destroyed all the young ones.”

“He had found the one calm place in the midst of the storm, a quiet voice calling him to earth.”

“Karen told me about an old woman who was the last surviving inhabitant of one of the Hermit Islands. She was the only one left who could speak her tribe's language, but the anthropologists didn't realize it and never bothered to learn it from her. When the old woman died, the language died with her.”

“I deserve no punishment at all for being who I am.”

“Of all mammals, only a human being can say 'no.”