I can't live for more than four years outside of Canada. I'm Canadian, so ultimately that is my reference point.

If you took the city of Tokyo and turned it upside down and shook it you would be amazed at the animals that fall out: badgers, wolves, boa constrictors, crocodiles, ostriches, baboons, capybaras, wild boars, leopards, manatees, ruminants, in untold numbers. There is no doubt in my mind that that feral giraffes and feral hippos have been living in Tokyo for generations without seeing a soul.

He's a shy man. Life has taught him not to show off what is most precious to him.

Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?

I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.