The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.

This strong sense of who I am that I've always had, since I was very young, is what makes me write.

[My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America.

In terms of what is expressed, antinatalism is a strong presence, not always explicit, in what I write.

Zen is influenced by Daoism, which is not so much a nature-religion in the animistic sense as a nature-philosophy in a cosmic sense.

The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.

[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.