All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of the Milky Way gets to meet the weaver girl on the other side of the Milky Way. They all get up on their roofs and watch that night. So they long for 365 days and then on the 365th night, they see the result of that longing.

Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.

Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.

If you want the truth, I will tell you the truth: Friend, listen: the God whom I love is inside.

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.

In the society that has replaced the paternalistic society, women are able to develop their independent and social energies much more. That is good.

Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.