Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.

I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.

The images which the [press] photographer has filtered from reality, whether particular events or the anguish of human reactions to them, already bear a stamp of authenticity which the photographer is powerless to alter by one jot or tittle; the meaning of the objects, by a process of purification, itself becomes the theme of the work.

According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land.

The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast.

Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger

An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.