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

Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love.

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.

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

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.

I dont see myself as any different from all the other Filipinos who have gone abroad looking for opportunity, to be a nurse, a labourer, a maid or a prostitute.

Love and honesty don't mix.