"Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows."

“Avoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good.”

“I think even with women who come across with a tough exterior, the interior is the same. I think you'll find this with women around the word: some women, because of their circumstances, are forced to be tougher, forced to cultivate tougher exteriors.”

Source : The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 23, 2014.

“The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.”

“I don't go by trends. I wear what I am comfortable in and what suits me. It is never about what is 'in' and what is 'out'. My personal sense of style spells 'comfort'.”

“Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.”

“I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.”

“There is the finest line between data and evidence.”

“Having decided to follow my own intuitive path I began to write music on the basis of harmonized spoken words, for new instruments and in new scales.”

Source : Harry Partch (2009). “Genesis of a Music: An Account of a Creative Work, Its Roots, and Its Fulfillments”, p.6, Da Capo Press