I'm always very interested in breeding. Raising cacti is breeding. My lotus plant collection is breeding. The insects are breeding.

My aesthetic sense was formed at a young age by what surrounded me: the narrow residential spaces of Japan and the mental escapes from those spaces that took the forms of manga and anime.

I've been immersed in manga since I was a kid. I grew up with this culture. So I started to think about how to compare manga to contemporary art.

Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.

I'm very sad to be compared with Warhol and The Factory, because I have no drugs, you know. We have no drug culture in Japan! Maybe it's because our attitude toward labor is totally different.

The way I formed my studio and how I organize things actually came out of the model of the Japanese animation studio and the manga industry. The manga industry is gigantic in Japan.

New York City is still the art capital - every time I'm in New York, I'm thinking about competition.

Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.

If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

Think wrongly if you please but in all cases think for yourself.

I believe the public's confidence would be increased if the federal government took over the functions of airport security screening for all passengers.

Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?

The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.

Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses

In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

I have a wonderful white coat I can wear on the court and also in New York for those rainy days...its lady-like and goes perfect with my personality.