Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

"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."

The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.

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

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

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything