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.

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

When harried, we go as far as we dare, and with those we're sure of we dare go very far, knowing where forgiveness is certain.

Kissing don't last: cookery do !

We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.

A drink centers me but I usually make myself wait until at least 9:00 PM for that. Or 8:00 PM. Whichever comes first.

To an ant on the ground, an airplane probably looks like an ant.

Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.

I like any dog that makes me look good when it stands next to me.

The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.

Photographers are always imposing

Ministry to the poor is a crucial sign that we believe the gospel.