Heretics are the only [bitter] remedy against the entropy of human thought.("Literature, Revolution, and Entropy")

We comes from God, I from the Devil.

The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading.

Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

There is no final one; revolutions are infinite.

We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")

I've always been a sad person. I'm a happy person too, but it's a thing in my brain or my spirit or something, I'm just sad and really acutely aware of mortality and loss.

I feel like my job is to give hope. The world is in a dark place and we are living in somewhat of a nightmare. So I want to make films to give hope.

With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things

We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.

Jesus makes you happy in reality. The world makes you happy escaping from reality.

The minute you realize that your options are unlimited, things just start falling into place all around you.

The world of dew is the world of dew. And yet, and yet--

I'ma make sure the family keep a decent meal, no matter what I got to do or who I got to kill.

The hardest obstacle I've had to overcome is complacency.

I'm eighteen years behind in my ironing. There's no use doing it now, it doesn't fit anybody I know.