… as General Berringer would readily admit, “If you’re in a fair fight, I’ve done something wrong.

And the General regrets the night.

I swore on my knees at the altar where you held me that I would kill you. It was an oath you made me make in my own blood. And now I have returned to give you the promised blade.

One's identity derives not from one's nation or blood but from the language one uses.

First of all, I wish you love, and that by loving you may also be loved.But if it’s not like that, be brief in forgettingAnd after you’ve forgotten, don’t keep anything.

The dance that I wasn't going to attend in about a jillion years just turned into a make-out session with random boys we have never met.

To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope.

Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.

I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.'

Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various cultures.

Sad news- Prince is gone. Music has lost a great presence. A world less funky. I don't believe in it.

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.