My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.

Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice.

Adaptability is the simple secret of survival.

Everything matters. Time is precious.

Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best.

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.

[On The Philippines:] ... eighty dialects and languages are spoken; we are a fragmented nation of loyal believers, divided by blood feuds and controlled by the Church.

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

Meditate five minutes each morning and see it wake up your entire life.

Is the any model like morality?

Kiss me back into place and remind me why we can't be together.

For those aspiring to make a living from travel photography, it's a sad fact that the boring shots are the shots that are going to make you money.

Luxurious lobster-nights, farewell, For sober, studious days!

The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.

Like any good spy novel, the Cox Report alleges that Chinese spies penetrated four U.S. weapons research labs and stole important information on seven nuclear warhead designs.

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

All that we are and all that we've ever felt, words have felt it first.

And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.