There is nothing more foolish than a foolish laugh. Risu inepto res ineptior nulla est

Give me a thousand kisses, then a hundred, then a thousand more.

I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

But you shall not escape my iambics.

Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

Godlike the man who sits at her side, who watches and catches that laughter which (softly) tears me to tatters: nothing is left of me, each time I see her.

Give up wanting to deserve any thanks from anyone, or thinking anybody can be grateful.

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

Better a sparrow, living or dead, than no birdsong at all.

The problem is not the occupation, but how people deal with it.

You'll see why, in animation circles, Miyazaki himself is considered one of the gods.

Whatever God would want me to do... love each other and help others. I want to add, not take away.

Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

What I want in my life is compassion a flow between myself and others based on mutual giving from the heart.

He who accuses another of being an evil person says so because he is afraid of him.

All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.

This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.

Who will bell the cat?

You know I was just taking a dump one day, and then as I sat there I realized, I really do deserve better.