In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.

The good old days are now.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

The tactics...no, amateurs discuss tactics,.... Professional soldiers study logistics.

What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things cannot be changed.

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

There is a sacred potential in every soul.

Nobody puts Roach in the corner.

I work in L.A. from time to time.

Something is going to have to happen. Not necessarily something big. Just something.

I am the freest author in the world.

Without TVXQ, I wouldn't be like myself, who I am today

An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.

It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. ... She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.

I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.