You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed..

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….

There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong..

A person is born form the deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and roll along like a wave. Until it's time to sink down aga….

Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. The….

When Im writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm….

She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate he….

It was really a means-of-production problem. It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Stap….

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away..

Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists ….

And if you decide not to read anymore, hey, no problem, because you're not the one I was waiting for anyway. But if you decide to read on, then guess….

Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless ….

language is magical - it's a form of conjuring. If you do it convincingly, readers will follow you..

The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we hav….

Even though I was making documentaries, my films had fictional elements to them. I think I like blurring those distinctions because so much of what w….

No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain..

Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes." "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit ….

What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?.

That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it in order to write it down, I chang….

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

She sat back on her heels and nodded. The thought experiment she proposed was certainly odd, but her point was simple. Everything in the universe was….