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

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.

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.

But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.

Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.

Every month I do a webcast for 55, 000 people, and it's a great tool, great communication vehicle.

Have the passion and the magic will happen

Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.

I don't think anyone knows why they meditate. As a matter of fact I'm not even sure that we do meditate. All we know is that we don't know.

I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

I like to wear beautiful clothes, but I don't have that many.

Being a famous print journalist is like being the best-dressed woman on radio.