Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

Dreams are more real than reality itself, they're closer to the self.

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?

I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.

For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

A good work can be communicated across languages ... [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

No matter what is your name, gender, race and nationality, you too are fully capable in turning your dreams into realities.

A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

With Mass Effect we said, "Let's reflect the fact that you can be almost anyone, do almost anything, but..." In our minds, we always felt the character was iconic.

It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

I always have searched for a point of view that a participant could change.

At the end of the day, I'm not a model, I'm an actor. I didn't want to be a model for a brand - I wanted to be a spokesperson and to collaborate.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

Sympathy does not think. It acts. It acts to remove. The ceaseless sufferings. Of the world

Zappos is a customer service company that just happens to sell shoes.