We are capitalism made flesh.

Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.

Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.

We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.

If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?

Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.

We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.

They do say money is the root of all evil."I thought that was supposed to be the love of money."There's neat for you. 'Tis them without it that loves it best.

Unless she scares the hell out of you, blows the cobwebs from your mind, scorches your heart with passion, melts your chains with goodness and lights a fire in your pants...then she is not the one.

On your journey to achieve your dreams you will face challenges that will test you to the core.

The practice of tantra is about inner-transformation. The energy involved in the process of tantric transformation is the energy of our own bliss.

People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.

We don't want to read a book. We want to live an experience.

The doctor is not a miracle worker who can magically save us but, rather, an expert adviser who can assist us in our own recovery.

I was told many times that my writing was either too Korean - or not Korean enough.

Why should you trouble yourself about the future? You do not even properly know about the present. Take care of the present, the future will take care of itself.

My dad was always fascinated and amused by Trump, so I learned to be fascinated and amused by Trump.