The best dreams are the dreams we made come true for the world.

To forgive, you must love the world and everything in it. Anything less is hypocrisy.

Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy.

Reality is a construct. You are what you think you are.

I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people.

In the end, class will out. So much talk about helping the poor. It's all words and class interest— in the end.

The battle for hearts and minds begins in the field of memory. And in that field, age has no limit.

Kindness is fate’s currency for good fortune. And like all currencies, it is without value when faked.

Only two things in man’s consciousness defy discussion: faith and one’s marriage.

Faith is one of only two things in mankind's consciousness that defies discussion. The other is one's marriage.

Don't die famous. The things they will say you did and said would make you rise up in anger if you were alive.

You've got to lose to know how to win.

Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it!

I would call the French scumbags, but that, of course, would be a disservice to bags filled with scum. I say we invade Iraq, then invade Chirac.

I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.

I hope that I have given happiness to others. I hope I have given children to the world, and that I have made some kind of a mark for myself here.

I never allow myself to be pressured.

In the end, for me, the sole single goal is to write the best novel that I can. Whether or not it gets made or gets purchased.

I don't work out too much and it's wild because it bugs me out.

Sometimes I make stuff, and even I don't like it. There's something about it that I don't really like, or annoys me. For whatever reason it needs to come out.

Let my name perish, -- the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music, and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.