I believe it doesn't matter what it is, as long as you can find something concrete to keep you busy while you are living your meaningless life..

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!.

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity..

Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after ….

I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do..

But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then..

My mind is like a gyre and odd juxtapositions happen..

Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up ….

Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation..

I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they ….

Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and its hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-centu….

It takes a long time to write a book. I'm not going to spend that much time trying to deliver a message. The reason I do it is because I want to unde….

The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to lo….

She smiled. “Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao..

Every seed has a story..

For the time being Words scatter Are they fallen leaves?.

When I start writing novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry, rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do ….

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

By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they're already being done. It's sort of like the war in Iraq: By the tim….

Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the e….

Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful..