I try to make the best of the opportunities that have been given to me.
Cooking can be like foreplay.
You spend the first part of your life collecting things. . . and the second half getting rid of them.
Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.
Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape. . . . For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place.
Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
My approach is just being conscious of everything.
A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.
I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.