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

If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.

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.

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

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

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

I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years on Ilustrado.