Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

Dare to love and get lost in yourself.

For the perpetrator, rape lasts just a matter of minutes. For the victim, it never stops.

If you wish to grow thinner diminish your dinner.

I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder, faster; where negativity is not an option.

When I learned how millions of children go to bed hungry, my only response was, 'What can I do to help?'

Anyone can post messages to the net. Practically everyone does. The resulting cacophony drowns out serious discussion.

Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, including New Zealanders, in several different parts of the world.

If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.

At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.