Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

The beginning is always today.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

You are my creator, but I am your master; Obey!

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Salespeople need to “Earn the right” to become suppliers more than they ever did before.

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things

The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.

You know honestly, I enjoy working with everyone because remember, these were all real pros that had been around the business a long time.

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

All of a sudden I'm an expert on everything. Interviewers want your opinion on golf, foreign policy and even the price of peanuts.

I simply make music, and people have always been foolish enough to pay me for it. I never told them that I would have done it all for nothing.

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.