"First, about the mind. You tell me there is no fighting or hatred or desire in the Town. That thi
s is a beautiful dream, and I do want your happiness. But the absence of fighting or hatred or desire also means the opposites do not exist either. No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope."
--Hard-Boiled Wonderland & The End of The World
"But who can say what's best? That's why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives."
--Norwegian Wood
"Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit."
--A Wild Sheep Chase
"Mediocrity is like a spot on your shirt, it never comes off."
--Dance, Dance, Dance