The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.
The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.
I'm out there talking to everyone. My days are filled with breakfast, lunches, dinner and drinks.
And that's my comfort--that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was real and not merely a dream?
Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.
The implication that everyone would have to accept its judgments uncritically, that it was a decision from which there could be no appeal, was astonishing.
One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.
Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.
The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.
The U.S. has the power to block all anti-Israel moves in the Security Council, not just some of them, and to do so without agreeing to unfair, damaging compromises.
Americans try to talk about positive family values, although the actual state of things is disastrous.
Collaborations aren't easy, but you definitely get something highly different than had you done it on your own. That's part of the experience.
My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.
Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions.
Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.
When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you can't airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.
If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him.
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
