Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?

An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.

In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.

By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.

We're by-products of the mid-twentieth century", Oliver said. "Who isn't?

Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants.

True freedom comes from being unknown.

There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:'You should start where you are

For the time beingWords scatterAre they fallen leaves?

As I bathe myselfI pray with all beingsthat we can purify body and mindand clean ourselves inside and out.

I like children. If they're properly cooked.

First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.

We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder.

When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.

I don't know anyone my age.

I think being a singer-songwriter... your job is to tell a story that other people can't really tell themselves.

I think that sometimes people don't think before they speak. And even a small comment can make or break someone's day.

I don't want to be remembered. As long as my kids remember me, I'd rather be forgotten by everybody else.

To get audiences to go see a film is a completely separate issue.

Life is a school and problems are the curriculum.