Miguel Syjuco

I used to believe authenticity could be achieved solely by describing, in our own words, one's own fragment of experience. This was of course predicated on the complete intellectual and aesthetic independence of the "I". One eventually realizes such intellectual isolationism promotes style, ego, awards. But not change.

Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child

Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we__l be.

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

Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.

Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.

morality... comes at a price.

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

To be angry implies you care