I don't wish to inhabit the human world under false pretences.

I have discovered that my freedom is within me, and nothing can destroy it.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.

I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.

Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.

So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks of dream wrapped in the silk stockings of oblivion.

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

Sunset is still my favorite color, and rainbow is second.

What's cooler than bein' cool?

More and more, even with a measure of success, I'm not sure what it is people are seeing when they see a movie I've made.

Nothing that I can encounter today can be as bad as what is behind me. There are small things that used to upset me, but now I just think: Who cares?

There's a real question at stake now. Is President Obama creating a civil war in our own country?

God is the true realistic point where human reason mostly, if not completely, breaks down.

You never lose by giving it all to Jesus.

The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.

My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people.