"And when it's all done, when there's no one left you'll come back for me. And tell me who I am and why I have to do what I do. And explain 'Eternity.' You'll come back"

“Since it is proposed to regard chemical reactions as electrical transactions in which reagents act by reason of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for atomic nuclei, it is important to be able to recognize which type of reactivity any given reagent exhibits.”

“Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights within us a love we didn't even know existed.”

“If you can't do it, give up!”

“The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.”

Source : "China’s Olympic Crossroads: Author Ma Jian on Beijing, Spectacle and Reality". Interview with Flora Zhang, beijing2008.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2008.

“An army must inevitably consist of the scum of the people and all those for which society has no use.”

“I don't intend to be insensitive to the victims and their families but, at the same time, as an actor, it's our job, and we are obligated to portray the characters in the most realistic way possible.”

“When we prohibit others from being different, we end up forfeiting our own right to Liberty.”

“I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that sense. My love for music has always been connected to the stories told through music, which is why I was drawn to theater and why I think 'Glee' is so powerful.”

Source : "King of all his castles" by Elaine Lipworth, www.nzherald.co.nz. May 14, 2005.