“And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.”

“And all the insects ceased in honor of the moon.”

“And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor for the one paragraph spread in front of the magazine: This is a serious happiness fu...”

“Be in love with your life, every detail of it.”

“So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry”

“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize youre already in heaven now.”

“Kyo: Of course, I'll beat YOU, too!Yuki: Don't you ever get tired of saying that?Kyo: Beating you is my vocation! It's my goal in life!Yuki: It's so unfair that I keep having to take abuse just bec...”

“For once I want the beat louder than my mind.”

“Its a sort of furtiveness Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge theres no use flaunting on that level, the level of the public, a kind of beatness I mean, being ...”

“But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a day transparent as an insect's wing in the light. Just as Monday is a compact day. Ultimately, fa...”

“Beatitude starts in the moment when the act of thinking has freed itself from the necessity of form. Beatitude starts at the moment when the thinking-feeling has surpassed the author's need to thin...”

“And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God. What I'm saying is that the thought of the man and the way this thinking-feeling can reach an e...”

“Happiness is not only a hope, but also in some strange manner a memory ... we are all kings in exile.”

“Since God lives in the heart, I was not to seek some Being way up in the sky . . . my journey to God was not outward, but inward! The only way to get closer to God was to become ordered enough insi...”

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”