AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?

To feel alone is to be alone.

I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

With writing, we have second chances.

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.

Memory was supposed to fill the time, but it made time a hole to be filled.

What is Fulfillment? Fulfillment is being Blissfully Content...with Pleasure and Peace… with Calmness and Courage…with Joy and Love.

What I was trying to say, maybe, is that I don't know what it is I'm capable of transforming into.

Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think theyre fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.

How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator.

I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.

People like me and Ozu get films made by hard work, but Shimizu is a genius.

Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And the piper advanced And the children followed.

No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?

I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'm Narcissus.

The formal education that I received made little sense to me.