Take three different Thai writers and ask them to extrapolate their county's future, and one hopes that you'll get three very different - but all deeply honest - versions.

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.

Suicide is not something I owe you or yours.

Knowledge is simply a terrible ocean we must cross, and hope that wisdom lies on the other side.

Killing isn't free. It takes something out of you every time you do it. You get their life; they get a piece of your soul. It's always a trade.

I'm a chess piece. A pawn,' she said. 'I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

The future looks a bit bleak to me.

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

I am not an originator but a transmitter.

I was just sick of being fat, you know? You get sick of it. It just really, it's a tiring lifestyle to have.

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

There was no need to inform us of the protocol involved. We were from Chicago and knew all about cement.

I like it here in New York. I like the idea of having to keep eyes in the back of your head all the time.

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.

I'm feeling pretty fortunate. I've been having lots of lovely auditions and meetings, so I'm savoring the moment.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

Never let go of the people that you love, because without them, what else have you got?