It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.
History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.
To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.
Love and honesty don't mix.
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.
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.