My grandmother taught me to knit, and as I knit, my mind returns to my childhood.
The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.
It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.
There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.
It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.
Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.
I think, we can only write very personal matters through our experience. When I named my first novel about my son A Personal Matter, I believe I knew the most important thing: there is not any personal matter; we must find the link between ourselves, our personal matter, and society.
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
Straight out of Blackpool, I'm William Regal. My rhymes so intense, they shouldn't be legal. My style is refined, not crude and crass. I'll keep you grounded, like volcanic ash. I'll take you down, rung by rung. I'm just like British Parliment; I'm completely hung. Straight-up gangsta trippin'. Yes, boy!
The false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Form does not necessarily follow function