"A name isn't a person." Ga said. "Don't ever remember someone by their name. To keep someone alive, you put them inside you, you put their face on your heart. Then, no matter where you are, they're always with you because they're a part of you."

Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

Where we are from... [s]tories are factual. If a farmer is declared a music virtuoso by the state, everyone had better start calling him maestro. And secretly, he'd be wise to start practicing the piano. For us, the story is more important than the person. If a man and his story are in conflict, it is the man who must change.

I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

The next day, she was silent. For breakfast, she murdered an onion and served it raw.