Why is she afraid?" he asked. "She's not Anjin-san. Just a little nervous. Please excuse her. She's never seen a foreigner close to before." "Tell her when the moon's full, barbarians sprout horns and fire comes out of our mouths like dragons.

Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma.

What you do with strangers is ignore them for. No second chance, no sorry I did it, never accept an apology, but never, ever get angry with strangers.

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.

There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer

And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always the King, not by strength alone, but King by cunning and luck and strength together. Among the rats.

Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?