Japan is the first nation in the world to accord 'comic books'--originally a 'humorous' form of entertainment mainly for young people--nearly the same social status as novels and films.

Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.

Nurture your great spirit for a great self.

Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.

I grew up as a reader as well as a movie-lover, so many of the novelists I admired - and so many of the great filmmakers I loved - were self-taught.

And yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion -- well, that would be zero.

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.

I always thought Christians were the weak people. When you can't make it in life then you have to ask God. I really prided myself on being a self-made man.

I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.

Love is blind, it stops lovers seeing the silly things they do.