People take things too literal in the Bible and it's totally wrong.

I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.

I'm from a middle class family but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people. I was very judgmental towards a lot of them.

Some people will never be able to get their real self, but that's fine, because their fake self is also part of them.

You can't judge people by their cover.

We're all competent in different ways, we've just got to find a way to push ourselves up more.

Obviously you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music.

That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that.

Happiness is overrated and money can't justify it.

When I started singing about my life and what I was going through, I felt more confident. It was my own life, I was being myself, I was telling people what was happening.

Travel is a worthwhile voyage.

My life has gotten a little more complicated than my ability to describe it. That used to be the definition of madness, now it's just continuous overload.

Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.

I think the trick of writing a good picture book manuscript is to leave that space for illustration. An illustrated novel can do the same thing.

Before it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclomations of peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate and perpetuate war.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

Regardless of what ideological twist people may have, about 90 to 95 percent of our population [in Puerto Rico] really values our citizenship. It's of utmost importance.

Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.

One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine.