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.

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

Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.

Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given period of time into pure continuance; it is certain never to be repeated; like the existence of dayflies and other such short-lived creatures, beauty is a perfect abstraction and creation of life itself. Nothing is so similar to life as music.

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

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