The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

We must be present enough and receptive enough to “hear” with our whole being beyond just the words that are being spoken.

I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past.

Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

Only in America could you find a way to make a healthy buck, And still keep your attitude on self-destruct.

I'm a cruel man to myself.

Agreeable surprises are the perquisites of youth.

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.

I couldn't quit, because of all the kids, and the blacks, and the little people pulling for me. I represent both the underdog and the overdog in our society.

TVXQ is our respected sunbae. Their vocal skills are strong, and we've studied much of their performances and choreography.

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.