If you think about it, an unfair society is a society that makes it possible for you to exploit your abilities to the limit.

I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.

It might not be perfect, but the fundamental stance I adopted with regard to my home was to accept it, problems and all, because it was something I myself had chosen. If it had problems, these were almost certainly problems that had originated within me.

Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course.

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

You always look so cool, like no matter what happens, it’s got nothing to do with you, but you’re not really like that. In your own way, you’re out there fighting as hard as you can, even if other people can’t tell by looking at you.