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

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.

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

I'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.

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

Love and honesty don't mix.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.