The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.

There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.

I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society — with the cosmos. To link me with my family to the cosmos, that is easy, because all literature has some mystic tendency. So when we write about our family, we can link ourselves to the cosmos.

Paradoxically, the people and state of Japan living on such moral props were not innocent but had been stained by their own past history of invading other Asian countries.

The way Japan had tried to build up a modern state modelled on the West was cataclysmic.

To be upright and to have an imagination: that is enough to be a very good young man.

It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.