Now, on this road trip, my mind seemed to uncrinkle, to breathe, to present to itself a cure for a disease it had not, until now, known it had.

Don't let your habits become handcuffs

I cried until my eyes swelled shut, and then I slept, a black, dreamless sleep from which I awoke amazingly refreshed, at least until I remembered.

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.

There I was, waiting, afraid I’d never experience the kind of joy yet to come, but hoping for it just the same.

The real Santa Claus is at the mall.

Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life-style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.

No matter how I say it, Donghae hyung holds a very high place in my heart.

I suffer so much in this life. That is what they [the audience] are feeling when I sing, that is why they cry. People who felt nothing in this life cannot sing.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.

Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?

I think I grew up with the idea that God was a punishing being, constructed around rules.

That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.