In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.
Don't squat with your spurs on.
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Sometimes people deserve a high five, in the face, with a chair.
Always drink upstream from the herd.
So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
Recognize and embrace your flaws so you can learn from them. Sometimes it takes a little polishing to truly shine.
I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.
A taste for liberal art is necessary to complete the character of a gentleman, Science alone is hard and mechanical. It exercises the understanding upon things out of ourselves, while it leaves the affections unemployed, or engrossed with our own immediate, narrow interests.
There is a kink in my damned brain that prevents me from thinking as other people think.