“Why do we need more Haitians? Take them out.”

“We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.”

“I needed to change my ways and set an example for my child as an Haitian parent.”

“Just what God needs: one more victim.
Why do we crucify ourselves?”

“We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.”

“Thoughts that cannot survive the open air and that evaporate as soon as we take them out of the room. To put them to the test of isolation. Take them out of the book where you found them, they do not endure.”

“Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.”

“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.”

“We do not wish, we do not need to expel the Arabs and take their place.”

“They live forever, but many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life’s value.”