The thing about religion is that it's the first and the worst. The worst because it's the first.

If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

If you think all this is going on, all these gigantic fields of gravity and light with you in mind, then you really do have a self-centredness problem.

Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.

I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.