Neil

“He was the old breed of Filipino, almost extinct, who required that he deserve what he received; who would feel guilt, not only shame or embarrassment; who accounted for each day in the office and observed public trust as if it were a word of God. But even God was nowhere. The new theology proclaimed him dead. Long live Man! Love live Me!”
― Linda Ty-Casper, The Hazards of Distance

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“That to own things did not necessarily mean one belonged; that possession was no guarantee of control”
― Ninotchka Rosca, State of War

“Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
― J. D. Salinger