Perfect purity is possible if you turn your life into a line of poetry written with a splash of blood.

A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.

Other people must be destroyed. In order that I might truly face the sun, the world itself must be destroyed.

It is a rather risky matter to discuss a happiness that has no need of words.

There's a huge seal called 'impossibility' pasted all over this world. And don't ever forget that we're the only ones who can tear it off once and for all.

If we value so highly the dignity of life, how can we not also value the dignity of death No death may be called futile.

He had never looked forward to the wisdom and other vaunted benefits of old age. Would he be able to die young—and if possible free of all pain? A graceful death—as a richly patterned kimono, thrown carelessly across a polished table, slides unobtrusively down into the darkness of the floor beneath. A death marked by elegance.