The night sky in North Korea might be the most brilliant in northeast Asia, the only airspace spared the coal dust, Gobi Desert sand, and carbon monoxide choking the rest of the continent.

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.

One death is a tragedy; a thousand is a statistic.

North Korea remains the last bastion of undiluted communism in the world.

He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch.

The best lessons of life are learnt in silence and solitude.

Never be seduced by the sweet promises of a better path

Write truthfully, write from the heart, and your words will live.

The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.

If you die of pneumonia,I'm pretty sure there are at least a dozen guys who'll try to kill me and make it look like an accident (Hale)

Cricket is not illegal, for it is a manly game.

If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].

The thing is, work is the thing I love the most.

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.