There's this parallel, perhaps less conscious desire, which is to numb myself to the world. To deal with the world tomorrow. Living is difficult. Dying is difficult.

I don't think you have talent!! But... I guess Fuuka will do.I have no choice!

I have never met a mentally strong person who wasn’t a voracious reader.

Too much of anything is not good. But I love her too much.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.

Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain. [Fr., Centre fortune, la diverse un chartier rompit nazardes son fouet.]

We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab.

The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members.

Futurists get to a certain age and, as one does, they suddenly recognize their own mortality.