By the time we, consumers, are aware of processes like genetic engineering, they're already being done. It's sort of like the war in Iraq: By the time we know about it, it's almost a fait accompli. And that's certainly true with science.

I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.

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.

Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and its hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-century Zen master Dogen Zenji, who writes beautifully about time.

Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!

But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then.

I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.