Without a huge shock, the sleepy-head, ignorant Japanese will never wake up.

Men should never give up. I never do. I would hate to lose.

Life is not fair and people are not equal.

People cannot live completely by themselves.

One must always be civic-minded.

Some dreams are best not to wake up from.

[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.")

If you don't want someone to change your life for you, you've got to change it yourself. (Vanishing Acts, pg. 339)

It's so hard being goth. You have to have a bad time everywhere.

Mastery has been achieved when one neither makes a mistake nor hesitates in the performance.

I believe that art has a kind of rightness, as in music, when we hear whether or not a note is false

When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

How happy the life unembarrassed by the cares of business!

A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes.

I'm lucky to be in this business. I'm very grateful.