The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.

the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.

Games are unquestionably the single most important cultural form of the digital age.

Leaving can sometimes be the best way to never go away.

Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all.

...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them.

I'm sorry I ruined your homecoming."He kissed me once more and then shook his head. "The only thing that could ruin this is not being with you.

If you believe someone believe blindly either you get a good relation or a good lesson

Maps codify the miracle of existence.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.

I don't like speed. I would have made a terrible Futurist. Even when I did take drugs, I never liked amphetamines and much preferred the slow taffy-pull of time that you get with opiates.

Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids.

A woman's fitness comes by fits.