I agree strongly that no story is more valuable than someone's life.

It is natural for us to pay attention to North Korea and human rights issues of North Korean defectors but I wish people would not try to create stars. The reality is different from Hollywood movies.

I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist.

People don't tend to lie about themselves when they're in imminent danger.

Imagination is what you do with your inspiration.

Sacred soul radiates inner light.

Passionately develop a positive and pragmatic psychology

The easiest way to disturb or create an element of horror is to take a positive emotion and put it in a negative situation, to create dissonance.

Anything is good painting material once you get to know it.

Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.

Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

We live in a culture where people are self-centered and careerist and everybody seems to think they have too much on their plate or they just don't have time for other people's pain.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil-it seizes up.