We live in the time of the colossal upright oblong.

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Falling in love should be the easiest thing in the world, but it's not.

You have nothing to lose, only to live.

It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person.

Bad mind, bad heart. (Mals Mens, Malus Animus

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

I'm just really happy.

Don't wait for a Gandhi, don't wait for a King, don't wait for a Mandela. You are your own Mandela, you are your own Gandhi, you are your own King.

I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.

My wife does wish I dressed better.

If I suddenly disappear from the music world, you might see Hikaru Utada working as a helper at some inn in Atami.