When I think of Tokyo Story, yeah, it is like a novella. That doesn't mean it's not great. Some of my favorite Tolstoy works are his novellas.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

Sometimes it doesn't matter "what you're doing?", the thing only matter is "At least you're doing something than doing nothing

his mind's like Alcatraz. once something's in, it never gets out

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.

There are some secrets that we think we're keeping, but those secrets are actually keeping us.

Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.

So now what? What happens when words fail us?

Do the thing that's less passive. Do the active thing. There's more of the human in that.

Sometimes I see where I want to take the song and wind up at the end and come back to the beginning. I don't miss nothing and everything is good. Everything I thought of is incorporated in it.

Don't be addicted to money. Work to learn. don't work for money. Work for knowledge.

Virtue begins when we dedicate ourselves actively to the job of gratitude.