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

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.

Most of us get our history through story.

My ears were full. Nothing more, not one more sound, could push into them and be registered.

Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this.

Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?