Children understand intuitively that the world they have been born into is not a blessed world.

Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.

Its not a story in which the characters grow up, but a story in which they draw on something already inside them, brought out by the particular circumstances. I want my young friends to live like that, and I think they, too, have such a wish.

Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.

I’d like to see Manhattan underwater. I’d like to see when the human population plummets and there are no more high rises, because nobody’s buying them. I’m excited about that. Money and desire—all that is going to collapse, and wild green grasses are going to take over.

Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.

It would be wonderful if I could see the end of civilization during my lifetime.