It is not our high purposes alone that make us moving creatures, but our humble needs and cravings.

In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees

There is his religion of art, my young successor: rejecting life! Not living is what he makes his beautiful fiction out of! And you will now be the person he is not living with!

That failure serves a purpose!

Inside the flower, within the very structure of its petals, my soul is an element of nature, at one with the blooming Meadow Pinx in the fields on the coast of Marnan.

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace.

You don’t have to live your life the way other people expect you to.

Those who look for reasons to hate miss opportunities to love.

I dress to kill, but tastefully.

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

I have a day job that's very odd. Most people, by the time they're 25, glom onto one kind of music and that's what they listen to for the rest of their lives.

Look at Matsumoto. You need at least 10 years of sleep to catch up with her." "Shut up! Rangiku's a freak of nature!