People don't tend to lie about themselves when they're in imminent danger.

It is natural for us to pay attention to North Korea and human rights issues of North Korean defectors but I wish people would not try to create stars. The reality is different from Hollywood movies.

I agree strongly that no story is more valuable than someone's life.

I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist.

Clouds buzz by, unaware of the scary world below them. I envy them. I envy the easy way that they live and die. They never have to worry about tomorrow and what horrors or death it might bring.

Love isn't about what happens after, it's about how great it is finding that love. The greater the find and chase, the longer the love lasts.

I play a man who is obsessed with his own beauty, so it's perfect casting.

A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement.

Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad. . . .

As long as you're consistently working on your craft, your heart is in the right place, and you pair that with being smart on how you present yourself to people, opportunities will appear.

The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.

The best of Texas is yet to come.