Love and honesty don't mix.

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

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.

The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually overthrown by a proto-hegemon that will in turn lose its position. It is this dizzying cycle that keeps humanity chasing the tail it lost millennia 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.

Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it

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