You don't really choose where you're born, but in our hearts, we can choose where we belong to.

I want my next girlfriend to be my wife.

If it's needed for me to have a drop of Filipino blood, I am willing to get it from Makati Med. My heart really belongs here.

Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).

It's amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are.

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power.

I'd love it if American kids were listening to Muslim music.

You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.

When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!

Jazz is my comfort music, like comfort food.

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.