Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf.

If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.

That which is painful sharpens one's love.

Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.