I have a feeling that in art the need to understand and the need to communicate are one.

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

For me, cooking is an extension of love.

i would've done anything to make you happy.i think you knew that.i think this is why you knew you had to let me go.

The more beautiful the vision, the more complicated the execution.

The essence if hope is accepting uncertainty.

Who are you, gaijin? What do you know about honor?''I'm called Chocho, ' Will said...'Chocho?' Arisaka shouted, goaded beyond control. 'Butterfly? Then die, Butterfly!

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.

I sincerely want to meet the girl that was meant for me, but I want to sleep with the girls that weren't.

I'm a sucker for interiors and carefully, beautifully filmed people sitting in a big room. My appetites are simple.

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy.

He who must needs have company, must needs have sometimes bad company.

Novel-writing is a settling, lovely space. I call it self-indulgent - I feel mildly guilty about it.