When I start writing novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry, rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters.

Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.

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!

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?

There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.

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

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.

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives.

No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

I am crazy enough to think I owe the world a change.

Investing in a startup does not make you an entrepreneur any more than buying a grand piano makes you a concert pianist.

Bad news travels at the speed of light good news travels like molasses.

Voters go into the ballot box with big ideas in their mind: leadership, change, experience, hope.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

There are lots of kinds of feminism, but ultimately it's about letting people be human beings

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

I've got a great collection of photography.

Quite frankly, I am not very comfortable in chitchat. When I go to board meetings, I arrive two minutes before and leave when it's over. I don't stay for lunch or go early and have coffee.