Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

What you feel in Japanese poetry is always entirely longing.

A person who discreetly farts in an elevator is not a divine being, and a man needs to know this.

You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened to you.

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

I have daughters and I have sons./When one of them lays a hand/On my shoulder, shining fish/Turn suddenly in the deep sea.