“A Novel? No, I don’t have the endurance any more. To write a novel, you have to be like Atlas, holding up the whole world on your shoulders, and supporting it there for months and years, while its affairs work themselves out…”
- J. M. Coetzee, Diary of a Bad Year. (source)
“The aim of an artist is not to solve a problem irrefutably, but to make people love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations.” – Tolstoy
“The last thing China wants to see is U.S.-style democracy in North Korea,” added congresswoman Song Sun-young, who sits on the South Korean National Assembly’s Defense Committee. “Even if they apply open-door policies to their markets, China wants North Korea to follow the Chinese style.” – (source)
