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 prostitute.

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

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

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

Love and honesty don't mix.

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

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

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 river's murky waves.

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

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

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

Forbidden things - my God, I'm drawn to them like a moth to a flame.

Poetry is not a mere expression of a poet's self, but an enchantment, a spell of the muse, the inspiration. Poetry is thus magic and magic is poetry.

If you take risks, you may fail. But if you do not take risks, you will surely fail. The greatest risk of all is to do nothing.

Ladies, your happiness is very important to us. You have to understand that. Because when you're happy, you let us touch you.

When we find inspiration, we need to take action for ourselves and for our communities. Even if it means making a hard choice, or cutting out something and leaving it in your past.

Halloween Costume I Hate: kids dressed as their parent's poltical beliefs. Oooh! Aren't you a scary health care reform bill!

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

Life is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked against you.

A musk deer searches for the source of the fragrance of musk, but it won't find it because the fragrance comes from within itself. Bliss is not to be found outside of us; it exists within us.

There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.