writing articles for Time Magazine.
And I took my first real trip to Japan
for two-and-a-half weeks,
and I came back with a 40-page essay
explaining every last detail
about Japan's temples,
its fashions, its baseball games,
its soul.
But underneath all that,
something that I couldn't understand
so moved me for reasons
I couldn't explain to you yet,
that I decided to go and live in Japan.
And now that I've been there for 28 years,
I really couldn't tell you
very much at all
about my adopted home.
Which is wonderful,
because it means every day
I'm making some new discovery,
and in the process,
looking around the corner
and seeing the hundred thousand things
I'll never know.
Knowledge is a priceless gift.
But the illusion of knowledge
can be more dangerous than ignorance.
Thinking that you know your lover