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NICOLAS CAGE: Well, I see it very much as a performance. My own feelings about death are almost Japanese in thinking. There is a samurai philosophy that you have to earn your right to die. Death has always been sort of a friend to me, because I’ve never ignored the fact that it’s going to happen, I’m very accepting of it. It’s always been something that I wear on my shoulder that says, “Get to work, because you only have so much time.”
All I Did Was Ask
Terry Gross
This insight would be the through-line for Momofuku: “That was the big idea: leave everyone walking out the door of Momofuku happy and surprised and glad to have spent their money.”
Creative Doing
Herbert Lui
We shall therefore have to recognize in our analysis of the myths, legends, and associated rites of our general species, besides certain constant themes and principles, certain variables also, according not only to the great variety of social systems that have flourished on this planet, but also to the modes of nature—knowledge that in the course of the millenniums have shaped and reshaped man’s image of his world.
Myths to Live By
Joseph Campbell
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