The reality is we all have to work together to make it work. We're going to be congenial with everyone. We're not telling people to park on the street.

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

The reality is we all have to work together to make it work. We're going to be congenial with everyone. We're not telling people to park on the street.

Just after Kim Jong Il's death, the official news agency put out an article saying that under Kim Jong Il's rule, the people had been like naive children without a care in the world.

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.