"Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself."

“I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.”

“If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.”

Source : Donald Hall (2004). “Breakfast Served Any Time All Day: Essays on Poetry New and Selected”, p.155, University of Michigan Press

“I like to see people put themselves into films, which is part of the reason why I love Woody Allen films so much-I believe his actors' work. I have a feeling that many actors in his films are similar to their characters, and I like that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Before the bell you fellow your family's name. Carrying the belt doesn't change me as a person. But I want to represent myself well. Some people want to show off their belt - but I'm not into that nonsense. I am who I am with or without the belt.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk

“I do not like it when other people dress up. I like everyone to be THEMSELVES.”

“When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what the other people think of me for paying it, and wondering if I have enough money in my pocket to pay the bill, that I don't get around to eating.”

“During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.”

“A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in my country, are more likely to get put under the carpet than get discussed. And when you talk about moral conundrums, about shades of gray, what you're doing is asking the people who want the world to be black and white to realize instead that maybe it's all right if it isn't. I know you'll learn something picking up my books, but my goal as a writer is not to teach you but to make you ask more questions.”