We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

没有经济复苏，就没有日本的未来。

Poetry should burn like fire.

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

我不在乎过去，我在乎未来。