I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

How do I feel about war? Well anybody I guess, I hope, I don't like it.

So war is an extremely sad business, because the majority of people don't want to be in it.

I haven't done a book for about 3 or 4 years now.

So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.

The road was new to me as roads always are going back.

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I'm singing now is what makes the money.

Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.

But I think it's a little different in Europe, because 40 is really the best age for a woman. That's when we hit our peak and become this ripe fruit.

My goals are so high.

If you give your trust to a person who does not deserve it, you actually give him the power to destroy you.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder and tears are only rain to make love grow.

If we truly love other people, they will see it. That love is infectious.

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation.

Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.