“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”

Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.

Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

Only when the clock stops does time come to life

As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people.

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent.

There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.

Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

Artists do; I don’t mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.

She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love.

Good ones don’t have time to bother with success or getting rich.

It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

Who gathers the withered rose?

The mind of one who practises doesn’t run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all.

Truth is all there is. It’s like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.

I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean.

Getting carried away is stupid, it won’t get me anywhere. -Nana Komatsu

If you were able to give up control absolutely, totally, and completely, then you would be a spiritually free being.

I think journalism can come from anywhere, and comedy can certainly come from anywhere.

And you can’t go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.

The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we’re finding fertile material.