Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.

Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.

When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They're gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.