"The thrill and embarrassment of becoming international pop stars was too much, so we opened our mouths and put our foot in sometimes."

"What terrible moments does one feel after one has engaged for a large work! In the beginning of my translating the Iliad, I wished any body would hang me a hundred times. It sat so heavily on my mind …"

"Out of... average boys, if they are well brought up, come some of the most useful men to society, and sometimes great men; for the apparent dulness or slowness of some boys is only apparent: they do n…"

"The elder culture that is being improvised all around us day by day... promises to be the road toward a saner, more compassionate, more sustainable world—altogether, a more important turning point tha…"

"These days people like Yi are more likely to end up in the Blue House or KBS than in jail."