The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japans brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.

No man stops caring as long as he breathes. As long as he has a mind and memory, he will care. This is what separates us from the animals. We have feelings.

Time will come that all that we love, we will eventually lose, and all that we hate we will eventually face.

You will find that our enemies are our own kin. It is they who betray us. So learn this most important lesson-in the end, our worst enemy is ourselves

Just because you have so much to give does not mean that they'll all be accepted. There's more to giving than just giving.

In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros.

We are shallow because we are mayabang, ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

She was benediction, a touch of faith, life itself coursing through my veins collapsed in age and turmoil, and to my fatigued and weary heart, a new and vibrant throb.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

Socialism Is For The People, Not The Socialist.

Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other.

Without intuition there would be no vision of future possibilities.

I could buy that she would murder me in a fit of rage, poison me out of flaming jealousy, or bomb my car out of sheer, stubborn pique. But she would never do it and feel nothing.

a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

I couldn't turn down The Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them.

The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.

I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.