As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, "Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!"

We shall go wild with fireworks...And they will plunge into the sky and shatter the darkness. We don't have any fireworks that big

I want to believe that memories, even sad and painful ones, should not be forgotten forever.

Ayame: This concludes my wonderful story. Kyo Sohma: You mean stupid!

[Kagura is doing laundry and tries to wring out Kyou's shirt, causing it to rip in two] Kyo Sohma: Tell me what I think just happened didn't just happen! Kagura: My love! Kyo Sohma: My shirt!

Don't get lost. Give it a try. Go find the place that you're wishing for.

When someone else accepts you, that's when you begin to see yourself - through THEIR eyes - and you begin to realize that there may actually be many qualities to like about yourself.

Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.

You must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up.

A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

That's why I won't give up! I'll continue to move forward because I believe!

Happiness, ... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.

Fear and hate create separation, love and joy creates belongingness and wholeness.

When we asked him to sum up his impression of the girls' emotional state at that point, he said, "Buffeted but not broken.

Don't confound static electricity with ecstatic eccentricity. One will leave your hair up, the other will live up in the air!

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

I didn’t like to dress up in high school. I wore pajamas all the time. Or I would have my hair in a high bun from dance, and just wear dance clothes.”

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

Being a defense hawk and a budget hawk are not mutually exclusive.

If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.