A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever.

How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.

I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself... I suppose that is what you call a loner.

All creations demand greenery of spirt. 

The West is boring itself to death! And talking itself to death!

God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.

There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn't believe in money must be out of their minds!