There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.
Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek.
We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Without challenge, we're only alive.
I have but one life to give to adventure.
This moment, this being, is the thing. My life is all life in little. The moon, the planets, pass around my heart. The sun, now hidden by the round bulk of this earth, shines into me, and in me as well. The gods and the angels both good and bad are like the hairs of my own head, seemingly numberless, and growing from within. I people the cosmos from myself, it seems, yet what am I? A puff of dust, or a brief coughing spell, with emptiness and silence to follow.
So-called restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.
Painting dissolves the forms at its command. . . it melts them into color.
A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.
Follow the road behind the Emperor. We must build the world for Japan's sake, heaven ordered Japan to achieve this great mission.
Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.
I was never jailed. The fact is that I was arrested, but I went into a diversion programme, and by that time I'd already begun working in what was called anger management. It was a painful and awful moment.