"One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life."

“The Goddess is not separate from the world – She IS the world, and all things in it: moon, sun, earth, star, stone, seed, flowing river, wind, wave, leaf and branch, bud and blossom, fang and claw, woman and man.”

“Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.”

Source : The Asahi Shimbun Interview (translated), August 30, 2011.

“I have an eight-year-old child, and I literally can't wrap my mind around the kind of grief that must be felt when you lose a child.”

“If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?”

“O, love, love, love! Love is like a dizziness; It winna let a poor body Gang about his biziness!”

Source : James Hogg (1832). “Songs”, p.116

“We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.”

“And I've always - the competition is one aspect of the job, but I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing.”

“You know what, I just write what I feel.”