“A stage space has two rules: (1) Anything can happen and (2) Something must happen.”
― The Empty Space
― The Empty Space
“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.”
― Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
― Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenkō
“We cannot avoid this responsibility, this freedom.”
― The Gift of Therapy
― The Gift of Therapy
“If I write a book I do it mostly for myself for the child in me and for the adult in me. The criterion for my children’s books is: If I were a child would I like it That’s very egotistical but it’s the same thing with my books for adults. I wouldn’t do a book if I didn’t want to partake and share. With a book I can do both: I give and I share.”
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“The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right.”
― Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality
― Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality
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