If I ever leave this place- I'll make sure I'm better HERE first.
We often talk to ourselves in ways that we would never let a stranger or even a friend talk to us.
When you have to start compromising yourself and your morals for the people around you, it's probably time to change the people around you.
When someone tells you, "You've changed," it might simply be because you've stopped living your life their way.
Whatever you fill your brain with and whoever you spend your time with. . . will determine your life a decade from now.
In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.
Learn to love yourself first, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you.
It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.
It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.
I think the place fed me completely. Not only was I in Uganda, but I was around many people who had a personal relationship with Idi Amin. I was eating the food constantly. I was culturally hanging out with the people. You can't help but absorb the energy, and try to get inside the culture.
There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.