Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.

Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.

When I started to learn how to read, I discovered the same kind of power. I could create an environment that I didn’t have, and I could order this environment in the way that I...

What happened was that sometimes I was, from a young age, put in the theater to watch movies because they kept me quiet and they kept me entertained, and they got me out from under...