All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.

Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me.

I'm of the glamorous ladies At whose beckoning history shook. But you are a man, and see only my pan, So I stay at home with a book.

Evangelion is my life and I have put everything I know into this work. This is my entire life. My life itself.

I didn't want to become a reserve player, or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge.

I love all religions, but I am in love with my own.

The girl gave him a look which ought to have stuck at least four inches out of his back.

I take every film as it comes.

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.

I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.