"And you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or…"

"On my fifteenth birthday I'll run away from home, journey to a far-off town, and live in a corner of a small library.…"

"I'm the lonely voyager standing on deck, and she's his sea. The sky is a blanket of grey, merging with the gray sea o…"

"According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people. In…"

"I pay the entrance fee at the desk, no questions asked, and get a key to a locker. After changing into shorts and a T…"

"I stare at this ceaseless, rushing crowd and imagine a time a hundred years from now. In a hundred years everybody he…"

"I think what Kafka does is give a purely mechanical explanation of that complex machine in the story, as sort of a su…"

"The term "spirit projection " sprang to mind. Are you familiar with it? Japanese folk tales are full of this sort of …"

"No such luck. " He smiles. "For better or for worse, I don't have that kind of power. If I sound like I'm always pred…"

"Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chase…"