Mary H.K. Choi Quotes

I always like to keep busy, otherwise my brain starts ticking.

I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.

To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.

Who should have spent their money on a brain implant?

I do get obsessed with constantly thinking of ideas, all day long, but that's just how it is.

Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down.

The thing about addiction is you think you're getting off on people, and you're not, and the only person you're fooling is yourself.

Movies will always be movies, and you can never replace that feeling of when the lights go down and the image comes up.

When you are creating to the magnitude that I try to create, your brain is like a computer, and you need to refresh.

I guess I don't try to justify climbing or defend it, because I can't. I see climbing as a compulsion that, at its best, is no worse than many other compulsions - golf or stamp collecting or growing world-record pumpkins.

Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.

The truth is that we have no idea what the long-term effects of any artificial enhancement may be. Will our brains be able to withstand running at artificially heightened capacity?

Most people have had that feeling of like, being obsessed with someone, and losing self control a bit, and that hopefully humanises addiction a bit.

I've always been obsessed with technology.

The sets were incredible. You would walk in at 6 in the morning, and we were really living in 'Blade Runner.'

My life is consumed by racing.

I love you like a fat kid love cake.

Might as well face it, you're addicted to love.

The most beautiful thing I have ever seen in a movie theatre is to go down to the front and turn around, and look at all the uplifted faces, the light from the screen reflected upon them.

I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard to think about anything else, very hard to see the larger picture of options that is your life, very hard to consider what else you might need or want or fear were you not so intently focused on one crushing passion. I sat in my room every night, with rare exceptions, for three and a half years.

I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction...my obsession.

Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story.

I loved The Fall; I was kind of obsessed with that show.