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.

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.

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.

You will only succeed in the field where your gift is

There is adventure in finding compelling stories and exploring complex issues in challenging environments, but there is also a responsibility to tell those stories accurately and objectively.

All day long, one continues to suffer sweet or bitter fruits. This life has been attained for the purpose of experiencing!

The past is just a story we tell ourselves.

As far as I'm concerned, Americans don't drink nearly enough. A good alcoholic poisoning of the brain now and then clears it out in a way that nothing else can.

For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men learn.

A psychologist once told me that for a boy being in the middle of a conflict between two women is the worst possible situation. There's always a desire to please each one.

Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?

Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.

Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.