"It feels so good to laugh at myself. I'd probably cry my eyes out if I didn't."

“If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent.”

“Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.”

“Capitalism’s concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is anti-human and intolerable in the deepest sense”

“Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be a devotional novelist.”

“It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends”

“You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.”

“Yes," he said. "I am sure. I double-checked everything after you went home yesterday. I even made a few improvements, just in case." The first part of that reassured her. The second part... not so much. "What kind of improvements?" "Oh, nothing, really. Mostly just streamlining. You really did very well; I certainly don't want you to think that I am one of those people who has to be in control all the- Oh, well, I suppose that's actually true- I do have to be in control all the time. But only because I am in charge, of course.”

“I can count off on one hand the number of times I've used testosterone gel - because it doesn't really do much.”