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

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.

Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best

Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.

Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before

I've observed over and over that people seem to get a much deeper sense of fulfillment out of something they've done as an act of service than out of the things they do for themselves.

But no work from a first rate mind is ever really second rate.

Hillary Clinton says one thing herself, but she has other people who are floating her plans.

They could put Hillary Clinton's brain in a jar in the Oval Office, and she'd be elected. People are really sick.

One can only hope the person you love will make you the best version of yourself.

If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.