The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.

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

Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the first draft of a manuscript. When he or she elaborates on the initial manuscript, it continues to strengthen and simplify that natural, deep voice.

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.

The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.