When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.

The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through which one may enter.

It does happen, of course, that the priesthood has been on bad terms with womankind for some three thousand years. You see, Buddhism teaches that women are evil. Fiends. Messengers of hell. I've spent years immersed in the scriptures, so it's no accident that you and I fight all the time.

It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.

Oh, you crows! Feast away! What a spread! Soup straight from the eye sockets! And thick red sake! But don't have too much Or you'll surely get drunk.

Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise of religion, they are nothing more than self-serving agitators.

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.