The reason I entered the election race was to promote reforms. For us who engage in business, we will be severely affected if financial and structural reforms don't proceed.

Because I'm thinking in a broader way, I feel like I am able to make better decisions.

It's not that I'm not interested in politics, but rather, I think that the people who become politicians in Japan are not very dynamic. Honestly, I find business much more interesting than politics.

Well I DO want to go up into space, but more than that, I'm dissatisfied with the fact that humans have only gone to the moon. I want to go to Mars! I want to eventually go beyond the solar system!

I haven't changed. If it seems I'm becoming more mainstream, doesn't that mean instead that Japan is aligning itself with me? I haven't changed one bit.

Education opens the door for an extraordinary life.

Express your love like a flower

No such word as can't. No such word as babagoozle neither!

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.

Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

No one can quite say what the creative process is. Because I have nothing to do with it of course. It's created in space. It's God's work, not mine.

I just like to talk to people. I don't know how to bridge the gap between getting to know someone and then schmoozing and sort of working contacts and business connections.