You are set free whenever you love—even those who believe you're crazy.

Those people make us strong and then valuable, whom we do not like initially.

Never despair if you have to start at the bottom

You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay away from such people or simply don't fall for their promises.

After a battle is over people talk a lot about how decisions were methodically reached but actually there's always a hell of a lot of groping around.

I don't mind dating younger men now.

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.

Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.

Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect.

Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.

I have nothing to complain about.