People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Individuality is freedom lived.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe.

I never see the dawn that I don't say to myself perhaps.

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real estate?

It's almost worth having been in the army for the joy your freedom gives you

And I decided I'd rather love too much than not at all.

you choose darknessyou choose light, but you will know if you chose right.

I’ve lived what feels like a thousand years to feel your kiss but my little mate, I’m in charge.” He said huskily, an air of authority lacing his words.

Corporate governments are as corrupt as their law enforcement departments.

Nourish the world with your words, yo.

The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.

I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head.

I like the idea of having a paperless society.But to be paperless means you have to be so careful with your identity.

The true Filipino is a decolonized Filipino.

Pico Iyer describes his writing as "intimate letters to a stranger," and I think that is what the writing process is. It begins with a question, and then you follow this path of exploration.