A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.

A samurai should always be prepared for death - whether his own or someone else's.

I make my own limits which are drawn according to my own taste.

All my knowledge comes from research.

I contemplate the bones for a while then turn away. I have work to do. Next year I will have an odako that is bigger, grander, more beautiful than anyone has ever seen. Next year.

Discovery Determines The System Of Education

If you find your sacred soul mate, bind the love bond.

I was wrong last night. Kyler isn’t just trouble. He’s an apocalypse-level disaster waiting to happen. I need to find some fallout shelter to hide in. And quick.

The soul of dispatch is decision.

I regularly find myself waking up to art I passed by or simply ignored.

There's always gonna be rock n' roll bands, there's always gonna be kids that love rock n' roll records, and there will always be rock n' roll.

When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well--we shall live very well.

It's not the dress ... it's the way you see me.

For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.

For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.