No two things the same, the equals sign a scandal.

Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as easily killed off.

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.

All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.

The past beats inside me like a second heart.

If I was asked to say what was the greatest invention of human beings, I would say the sentence.

Everything we do is tinged with the knowledge that this may be the last time that we will do this, and that makes what we're doing incredibly sweet.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.

A man is not much if he can't depend on himself, and nothing if others can't depend on him.

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves.

TANDAAN: mahirap mafriendzone, pero madali lang gumanti!

A man who can't uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive - Hajime Saito

That's a very murky position, " objected Felix."So's the weather. But this is England, we must learn to live with uncertainty.

We transform our relationships when we listen with our ears, hearts, and souls.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

In the morning, I wake up at about 6 a.m. and I run for about 45 minutes, then more sprinting. Then I go back home, I eat and I sleep. When I wake up, I train - I do about three hours in the gym...

I've outlived all my diet doctors.

Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.

You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.