"It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness."
- Miguel Syjuco
"Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves."
"To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life."
"Love and honesty don’t mix."
"History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth."
"Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That's just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?"
"I transform fiction into memory."
"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."
"How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility of explosions"
"...when you hate someone so much, a part of you wants desperately to forgive them. But you can't decide if it's because you really want, or if you just want to stop hating. I still don't know if forgi..."