Leaving can sometimes be the best way to never go away.

the Japanese school year begins in spring ... so mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.

The process of unlearning in order to relearn demands a new concept of knowledge not as thing but as a process, not as a noun but as a verb.

Games are unquestionably the single most important cultural form of the digital age.

Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all.

Look at it this way, child, life is a magic show, or should be if people didn't go to sleep on each other. Always leave folks with a bit of mystery, son.

Don't take crucial decisions when you are depressed or filled with anger, because then the decision is not made by you.

If you didn't like your own life, you changed it. You ran away. You did something spectacular. you didn't steal someone else's story and pretend it was yours.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

All who love are conspirators.

Whoops - My wand is a little over excited!

I wonder if what makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.

Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.

Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.

Hardened terrorists are coming here to hit us hard if we don't hit them first.