A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.

Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?

If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.

In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.

Everybody has some one thing they do not want to lose," began the man. "You included. And we are professionals at finding out that very thing. Humans by necessity must have a midway point between their desires and their pride. Just as all objects must have a center of gravity. This is something we can pinpoint. Only when it is gone do people realize it even existed.

What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.