I shoved him off the snowmobile. He landed on his back in the snow. "Love is a brat, you think? No, love id fine. You are the brat, you spoiled, rotten brat!

Your mornings are very powerful. Be careful with them.

Don't kiss me", he said, looking into Natalie's eyes. There was a second's silence. "Let me kiss you. I'm old-fashioned that way.

In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as citizens.

Love is... never asking for more than you are prepared to give.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university.

On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.

For the longest time, chefs and restaurateurs were able to get products home cooks couldn’t get, but that’s not the case anymore.

Non-attachment is about not being attached to anything - including non-attachment itself.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.