I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century.

In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!

For the sake of the aftermath.

It's okay to be afraid, Jo. It's what keeps us alive. But falling to that fear is what will get you killed.

Could an enemy really curse someone? Could the enemy affect reality by the deliberate mental intent of harming?

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.

My dad gave me a haircut... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.

You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.

I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it.

If I suddenly disappear from the music world, you might see Hikaru Utada working as a helper at some inn in Atami.