Today, tomorrow, " she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

Ga thought about reminding the Dear Leader that they lived in a land where people had been trained to accept any reality presented to them.

Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward.

This was the face that Ga had shown the world, that of a boy who had swallowed the things that had happened to him, but who wouldn’t understand what they meant for a long, long time.

The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you

To survive in this world, you got to be many times a coward but at least once a hero

In this way, you’ll live forever.

Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

The night glittered brilliantly then.

There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.

We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop'; personally, I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.' It always means listen closely.

Decide justice is worthy and refuse to go away.

I can see how some people get sentimental about how we used to do things in 'the good old days' but in a way I just think they are being nostalgic for the way they were brought up.

And it can take a lifetime, a life of many years, to accept the incongruity of things: that a small moment can sit side by side with a big one, and become part of the same.

I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.

Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.

Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.