Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.