In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.

The current situation of the earthquake, tsunami and the nuclear plants is in a way the most severe crisis in the 65 years since World War II.

The trend in the world right now is - not just in developed countries, but in developing countries including China and India - there is a movement to build more and more nuclear plants.

If you are unable to understand the cause of a problem it is impossible to solve it.

So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor, it feels very much closed in for various reasons.

Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.

When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.

The safest nuclear power or energy policy is to realize 'zero nuclear power.

It is possible for Japan to become the model of a society that does not rely on nuclear power.

This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert.

I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear. I seek a society non-reliant on nuclear energy, a society that can do without nuclear energy, and Japan can prove a role model. It’s possible.

Living in the moment works sometimes, but when alone, it clouds over your memories and dreams, and those are what I need to survive.

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

Some people were born to the shape they would occupy all their lives.("Wait")

We begin selling ourselves on what we want to do rather than what we ought to do. We listen to ourselves until we believe our own lies, and the we opt for happiness.

I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way.

You watch yourself. One day you're going to pick a hole in the sky and the universe is gonna fall right through. Then we'll all be in a fix

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.

When trouble ends even troubles please.

I began to think that if you're a stutterer, it's about inhabiting silence, emptiness, and nothingness.

My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!