I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.

I really wish they hadn't made the set out of asbestos.

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

For white men, to live is to own, or to try to own more, or to die trying to own more. Their appetites are astonishing! They own wardrobes, slaves, carriages, houses, warehouses, and ships. They own ports, cities, plantations, valleys, mountains, chains of islands. They own this world, its jungles, its skies, and its seas. Yet they complain that Dejima is a prison. They complain they are not free.

One's ribs shouldn't be prison bars.