Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.
Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'
We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.
We are the movies and the movies are us.
You'll see why, in animation circles, Miyazaki himself is considered one of the gods.
The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
The law must have the last word.
Evil comes to all us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.
There was a period of a few months, however, when I had a dreadful physical pain. I had just started writing a particular section of the novel and was initially worried that it would affect my work. I was woken by awful nightmares; I saw several doctors, tests were performed, nothing came of them, and the medics were mystified. It was two days after I finished writing the section that the penny dropped. The pain had suddenly disappeared and so too had the nightmares. I'd got things muddled. The pain and the nightmares were both psychosomatic.