The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.

Nights are long when it's cold and you're waiting for a train.

Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.

One day is enough to master reading in Korean. Hangeul is a very scientific and convenient alphabet system for communication.

She carried the burn of the sun on her body. It was for all of those wasted, dull years.

They were the men and the women of the sand, of the wind, of the light, of the night. They appeared as in a dream, at the crest of a dune, as if they were born of the cloudless sky.

The earth is neither fabulous nor paradisal. And therefore it is not hell.

[W]hat is one to say of the writer who lies when he writes that he is lying?

When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident.

Mania is fun. I won't lie, it's fun. But it's usually followed by a soul-crushing depression.

Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

The world is growing old;Who would not be at rest and freeWhere love is never cold?

The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.

Slavery had very little to do with the economic success of the West. Just look at the facts and figures and how much slavery actually contributed to development.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

Being human is overrated.

Probably the hardest thing to do was the beginning of the movie ["300"], I think, when we were in Sparta and all that - just getting in the groove.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.