The most persistent hate is that which doth degenerate from love.

Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing.

If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.

Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive.

What a dire time to be attracted to men.

If the news is that important, it will find me.

What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

I'm into humanity. I don't believe in God, but I believe in human beings.

Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity.

Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.

Funny, 'ow you can 'old a jewel in your 'and, and toss it away, and not even know what you 'ad until it's gone.

Part of the beauty of a long-format story is that the characters become as much yours as they are mine, and you dream of them in a different way than I do.

Cinema is dead, long live cinema.