Quotes About Humanity

'Altered Carbon' is one of the most seminal pieces of post-cyberpunk hard science fiction out there - a dark, complex noir story that challenges our ideas of what it means to be human when all information becomes encodable, including the human mind.

Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.

We all get angry and jealous sometimes, none of us is perfect, but we should not try to be different.

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.

I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us.

We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.

I still feel insecure all the time. I feel like it's just a part of being a human being... I just learned normal is very boring.

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

I'm just a normal person made of flesh and blood like anybody.

I'm a normal person just like everybody else. I just may have a different job. But I have kids, wife. I bleed, I went through cancer.

I want to play a wife who cheats on her husband, or just a normal person who isn't an angel, because I am far from an angel.

I'm a normal person. I'm just like you and just like everyone else - I have feelings and thoughts.

I'm a normal person, but people see me as this person who's not really real, almost like I don't have feelings. They think they can treat me any way they want to.

When you're just a breath away from North Korea, it boggles your mind that that exists, or that something like the Khmer Rouge ever existed. You wonder how we allow that to happen as human beings; how we allow the human condition to get so depraved and desperate.

When many Chinese escaped to North Korea during the Cultural Revolution, we embraced them. People in China have forgotten about this.

There's nothing I did wrong. I was just born in North Korea, and that was my crime.

I do think sometimes, I wonder is it true that every life is equal in this world? Do we care about North Korean lives?

You have moments when you sulk, when you crib and cry and feel that, 'why me and why all these things are happening with me.' We are only human. It's about facing your fear and not giving up because you are the only person who will support yourself at the end of the day and if you dont do that than nobody else will.

You're lacking a human dimension of some sort if you're not interested in the arts.

Certainly, I read a lot and follow the news. But as a writer, I am not interested in a political story. I am searching for the humanity of the characters. I never set out to write a book about an 'issue.'

I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything.

I'm not interested in going and doing a big, action-adventure romp with nothing to say about being a human being.