Angst is not the human condition, itโs the purgatory between what we have and what we want but canโt get.
Miguel SyjucoI 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.
Miguel SyjucoI'm home and safe and filled with the comfort of being somewhere I've already been. The ruckus of homecoming is brutally enjoyable and everyone makes me feel like a champion. And all I had to do was stay away long enough.
Miguel SyjucoFiction 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.
Miguel Syjuco