“I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.”

“I, too, eat steamed human-blood buns.”

“Before the eyes shutthis knife shines snow-bright once more through the inner organsas using a nuclear bomb to light a cigarsends lung cancer across the earthto parting lovers”

“Life is pricelesseven to an ant”

“In the face of a nation that shamelessly assaults the very marrow of our bones, memory is but a pale gray field.”

“The agony of the dead is with us, and we hear their screams and walk among their ghosts. We cannot avert our eyes or plug up our ears. We must bear witness and speak for those who cannot speak. We have only one chance to get it right.”

“I try to believe like I believed when I was five...when your heart tells you everything you need to know.”