Influences

Stage

• Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night
• William Shakespeare's Hamlet
• David Mamet's Glengarry Glenn Ross
• Del Close

Screen

• Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colours Trilogy
• Otmar Guttmann's Pingu
• Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris
• Auguste and Louis Lumière's Films
• Christopher Nolan's Inception
• Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away

Music

• Chet Baker
• Johan Johannson
• Portishead
• Sigur Ros

Science

• Giordano Bruno
• Dr. Rollo May
• Dr. Albert Ellis
• Dr. Jacqueline Mattis
• Dr. Shoma Morita (森田 正馬)

Poetry

• Sharon Olds
• Carl Dennis
• Stephen Dunn
• Natasha Tretheway
• Anna Akhmatova
• Ted Kooser
• Mark Strand
• Matthew Buckley Smith

Fiction

• Ron Rash
• Amy Hempel
• George Saunders
• Jon Stewart
• Flannery O'Connor

Art

• Andreas Gursky
• Olafur Eliasson
• Stanley Donwood
• Edvard Munch

Design Non-Fiction

• Christopher Alexander
• David & Mary Sherwin
• Brenda Laurel
• Nathan Shedroff
• Buckminster Fuller

Philosophy

• Socrates
• Walter Benjamin
• Martin Buber
• Pema Chödrön