And the blood remembers what the heart has never learned. The approach to kill. ("The Moon Of Montezuma")

The portieres were drawn across the French windows now, veiling the stars outside - that were there nevertheless. ("Speak To Me Of Death")

That's a man's vital spot, the helpless thing he loves. ("Jane Brown's Body")

...all a guy can do is die once. The big difference is whether he dies clean - or dirty... ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point. ("Jane Brown's Body")

Men's loyalty to their women dies hard - and almost always too late. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

But that's the Way, and there is no other. And once his mind's made up, the trembling and aimless walking stops, and he can look doom in the face without flinching. ("Jane Brown's Body")

The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the fake. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

For that (the rapt one warns) is what papyr is meed of, made of, hides and hints and misses in prints.

I want we to be friends, not to follow you.I want you to stop the lies, it's not awesome.

A statue is just a statue until someone comes along and says it is beautiful. Then it starts to enjoy the magnificence of life.

I liked the opera very much. Everything but the music.

If the current birth rate, which is the lowest in the major developed countries, continues, there will be no Japanese. Who will pay the enormous debt?

In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]

Limitations only go so far.

Anything you can do, I can do meta

Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.