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

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.

Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.

There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.

Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?

…the samurai ethic is a political science of the heart, designed to control such discouragement and fatigue in order to avoid showing them to others. It was thought more important to look healthy than to be healthy, and more important to seem bold and daring than to be so. This view of morality, since it is physiologically based on the special vanity peculiar to men, is perhaps the supreme male view of morality.