Unhappy man! Do you share my maddness? Have you drunk also of the intoxicating draught? Hear me; let me reveal my tale, and you will dash the cup from your lips!

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The beginning is always today.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

A lingering grain of inefficacy capitulates to the arrogance of authority.

Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City

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

When Secretary [Hillary] Clinton talks about people that didn't get paid, first of all, they did get paid a lot, but taken advantage of the laws of the nation.

To come home and share life experiences with friends is the key to what makes me feel really alive.

When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.

There's an inner feeling you get when you get in a situation to do well in a game. It's hard to explain.

The hell with the newspapers. Nobody reads the letters to the editor column except the nuts. It's enough to get you down.

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room.