I thought of the new stone, of my new wife, and of the newly buried white bones beneath us, and I felt that fate had made sport of us all.

There was a large crowd around us, and every face in it looked happy. We had little opportunity to talk until we reached the woods, where there were no flowers and no people.

I am a lonely man, ' Sensei said. 'And so I am glad that you come to see me. But I am also a melancholy man, and so I asked you why you should wish to visit me so often.

No matter how full one's head might be with the image of greatness, one was useless, I found out, unless one was a worthy man first.

On the whole, all people are good, or at least they're normal. The frightening thing is that they can suddenly turn bad when it comes to the crunch.

The joy of a simple life is the greatest satisfaction.

a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed.

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.

Pain didn't ever really stop, he thought; it just changed forms.

I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.

A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.

If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much.

If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.

I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there.

Slater's a big star and he's been in the business a long time. He's always in a good mood and easygoing but he takes his character very seriously.