Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady.

I believe death is only a door. One closes$$$ and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven$$$ I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

You've been making the wrong mistakes.

If you're gonna be two-faced$$$ at least make one of them pretty.

A father is a reality-concealing machine$$$ a machine for dishing up lies to kids$$$ and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.

The samurai ethic is a political science of the heart$$$ designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others. It was thought more important to look healthy than to be healthy$$$ and more important to seem bold and daring than to be so. This view of morality$$$ since it is physiologically based on the special vanity peculiar to men$$$ is perhaps the supreme male view of morality.

Why$$$ flowers are violent$$$ cruel$$$ terrible$$$ splendid...like love.

Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get. They're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you.