Isn't it only laughter we can stay human?

Isn’t it only through laughter that we become one with the gods and thus can endure life and can overcome all the horror and waste and suffering here on earth? …Isn’t it only through laughter we can stay human?

You've commited murder just as much as Helene did. You killed a fly with a human head. She killed a human with a fly head.

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

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.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

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.