People hardly ever realize that we can cut anything from our lives, any time, just like that. (Ixtlan, 24)

One must have the desire to drop it, he said, and then one must proceed to chop it off, little by little. (Ixtlan, 29)

…and I realized the way I lived was not worth living, so I changed it. (Ixtlan, 80)

Sometimes it takes years for a man to become convinced of the need to change. It took me years, but maybe I didn’t have the knack for hunting. I think for me the most difficult thing was to really want to change. (Ixtlan, 105)