A man's life is all he has. When you're old, it's all you'll ever have.

— Miguel Syjuco

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

— Miguel Syjuco

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

— Miguel Syjuco

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

— Miguel Syjuco

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

— Miguel Syjuco

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

— Miguel Syjuco

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

— Miguel Syjuco

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.

— Miguel Syjuco

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

— Miguel Syjuco

I transform fiction into memory.

— Miguel Syjuco