Although she was fragile in appearance, every prohibition lost substance in her presence.

The rules say that to tell a story you need first of all a measuring stick, a calendar, you have to calculate how much time has passed between you and the facts, the emotions to be narrated.

The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.

Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell.

I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.

I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.

I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.

In order not to cut out a large part of one's private life, the creative work should not swallow up every other form of self-expression. But that is the most complicated thing.

I have always paid careful attention to social and economic conflicts, to the dialectic - if we can call it that - between high and low. Maybe it's because I was not born or brought up in affluence.

TANDAAN: mahirap mafriendzone, pero madali lang gumanti!

Oh Mokona, you're such a tease! ~Fai D. Flowright

I think we do need a Constitutional amendment to take the profit out of politics by imposing term limits.

There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.

I didn't have a childhood.

The market and the consumer and idea trump the system.

Knowing that you are living in a dreamworld is very liberating, because it gives you the option of waking up.

I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality...to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not?

Seeing TVXQ's music and stage makes me feel touched, and they're a very good influence on us.

My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.