Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

I wasn't sure what was happening between us, but I didn't want it to happen without me.

One can always find hands for a work of destruction.

I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.

The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.

My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.

I have my favorite authors, but in reality, my mother did. Though she's never written a book, she paved the way for me to.

When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.