Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words.

Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.

The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.

The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?

The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us

People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

I suppose even a woman's hatred is a kind of love.

Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.

Lunatics have no age. If we were crazy, you and I, we might be a great deal younger.

Sometimes only when opportunity stops banging to be let in do we notice its absence!

Depression is not always feeling sad. Most of the time it is feeling no

Sometimes, it will never make sense until you find the right path that makes sense to you and no one else.

She dated me for 3/4 yrs and liked me so much that she married me and disliked me so much that she divorced me after 4 yrs.

New York presented a paradox. While foreigners thought of New York has the symbol of America, many Americans viewed the city with some suspicion as the country's most foreign.

Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.

People have always been telling me what I can't do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That's been one of my driving forces all my life.

I'm not one of these actors who feels a pressing need to direct, and I have no plans to do it.

The most successful people I know create superior results yet still maintain a balance among work, family, and recreation in their lives.

It would be better for me to die than to live.