Even through the smoke, you are still the most beautiful thingin this city and I, well, I am stillthe last thing you’d save in a fire.

My tongue was handed down to meby datus and katipuneros. The truth ismy mouth is a battlefield thatyou wouldn’t know how to fight in.

Did you tell them that you made love to the poet?Did you tell them that our lovechild is an elegy?

I'm sure that you didn't think I would notice, but we memorize the strangest things in a personwhen we're in love with them.

You said: "Wait for the moon with me."I stayed. I waited. The moon never came.

I bought this the day before at a shopping mall. I didn't want to forget him. Maybe I didn't want him to forget me.

We are fools in the stream of time, in moments of calm, we will laugh about ourselves.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

I'm being all of me, and it feels stupendous. I don't want to leave this feeling.

I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.

If you try to follow everyone else's mold, you'll probably fail at some point because God created us uniquely for a reason.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life. All the opportunities in the world are waiting to be grasped by people who are in love with what they're doing.

I'm not a great fan of people who suddenly manage to pull out the whole track sounding perfect from a laptop. That doesn't feel like any kind of show to me.

Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.

Making movies, you're like an independent contractor - you come in, you have a specific job, and a lot of what you do is completely manipulated, which is good and bad.