The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

The kingdom of God is his domain and territory where God rules as king

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

I grew up doing martial arts, and I love martial arts movies and fight scenes. I'm pretty athletic, so I enjoy doing that stuff.

Every single policy Hillary Clinton espouses and every single policy of President [Barack] Obama has been demonstrably bad for women!

My stuff was all right, but it's not about pitching good. It's about winning. I pitched just good enough to lose.

I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.

I always say that talent and capability is everywhere, all it needs is opportunity.

Some are going, some are staying....i'm in between.

You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.

From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.