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….

Being remembered is all anyone can ask from a lost love..

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective..

We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to u….

Postmodernism was a reaction to modernism. Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a sing….

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

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

Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago..

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

You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cath….

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 be….

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….

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 r….

The slaves of today will become the tyrants of tomorrow--the proletariat overthrows the hegemon to become the hegemon itself, only to be eventually o….

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are ….

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..

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 ….

Love and honesty don't mix..

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth..

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..