The relationship between reader and writer is reciprocal in a way. We co-create each other. We are constantly emerging out of the relationship we have with others.

Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.

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.

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

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.

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.