Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.

Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?

Most things in here don't react well to bullets.