The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang their songs.

Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

I became a Catholic against my will.

Christianity, to be effective in Japan, must change.

Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place

The problem is not in the sugar when it tastes bitter, the problem is with the tongue.

The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.

The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.

I write because the act of writing itself is what drives me. It's a private communication within myself - nothing more or less. This doesn't mean I do not want to share with people.

The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

When meditation releases energy in you, it will find all sorts of ways to be expressed.

I don't think of myself as making art. I do what I do because I want to, because painting is the best way I've found to get along with myself.

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

I will teach you my townspeople how to perform a funeral for you have it over a troop of artists unless one should scour the world you have the ground sense necessary.