A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.

Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.

The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.

Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words.

The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?

The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us

People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.

Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.

I'm afraid of them and they don't like mebecause I'm afraid.

Loss is an inevitable part of change.

In the life of mathematics two plus two makes four

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

If someone didn't believe in me that would kind of be a compliment in a way.

Television, despite its enormous presence, turns out to have added pitifully few lines to the communal memory.

We've got to know our history. We have to be able to bring our children to a place that they can be proud of.

In the New World, happiness is enforced.

If you act like you know what you're going, you can do anything you want - except neurosurgery.

Sometimes you need to take a departure from what you do to something that's slightly different in order to get inspiration.