"Sometimes you have to go through some ugly stuff to get to the good stuff."

“There is too much bad news to justify complacency. There is too much good news to justify despair.”

“Faith is a practical attitude of the will.”

“I don't really expect much from my life. So when I heard my films are premiering in film festival circuits I was glad of course but I thought it was lucky accident.”

Source : "Takeshi Kitano: Silent superstar" by Dean Irvine, edition.cnn.com. October 23, 2008.

“Mark Twain cannot be defined.”

“For us, launching new systems is about bringing new consumer experiences to the marketplace and we're doing that with Nintendo land and third-party publishers are doing it with games like ZombiU. For us, now is the right time to launch new hardware.”

“The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.”

“With the fans and the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, the way I've been treated here has been awesome.”

“Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of all but the most blessed, the writer, of all people, replaces that ordering principle. Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that, while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”