Please don't smile like that. Your heart is full of feelings that you've kept to yourself. Don't laugh as if you don't know anything.

In the name of God! You, demon, born in the dark! I seal you here! Checkmate!

Is it a sin to hold something more important than your life? Should I be condemned for that?

To each their own. One must live each day so that there are no regrets.

People don't fall in love so easily. So they don't hate so easily, either.

If…if you don't feel anything for me then don't touch me! Don't act like you care!

God, I'm a girl with a cursed fate. I've fallen in love with a boy and I want to be happy.

I'll break your chains; so sing, Takuto. As loud and as much as you want. You don't have to hold back anything.

Tsuyokini, honkiMutekini, sutekiGenki, yuuki!--Kusakabe Maron

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.

Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.

Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.

you are yesterday's bouquet so sadly raided

Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.

More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.

I grew up listening to everything. And rock and roll has always been a big, big part of it - as big a part of what I do as any other type of music.

The categories of woman and man are too rigid. They're going to give way to new forces. They already have, to a degree, but for most of us, this drama held sway, and we assumed our positions.

One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild dart throwing that desire leads to.