I wanted to meet the people, to get involved in the city, to make Tokyo mine.
The worst has happened. . . it's rather liberating.
I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.
We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.
It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.
I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.
The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.
When the New Testament speaks about the fullness of grace which we find in Christ, it does not mean only forgiveness, pardon and justification. Christ has done much more for us. He died for us, but he also lived for us. Now he has sent his own Spirit to us so that we might draw on his strength. He grew in grace, and when we draw on his power we shall likewise grow in grace.
You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are.
Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered. But humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.
Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.