"Truly, human life is as ephemeral as dew and as brief as lightning."

"When I kill a man, I do it with my sword, but people like you don't use swords. You gentlemen kill with your power, w…"

"Question: How about friends—how many do you have? Answer: Oh, my friendships reach over all boundaries of time and sp…"

"Once he had finished writing “The Life of a Stupid Man,” he happened to see a stuffed swan in a secondhand shop. It s…"

"We are human animals and thus fear death as animals do. The so-called “will to live” is nothing more than a different…"

"If we can submit ourselves to that eternal slumber, we can doubtlessly win ourselves peace, if perhaps not happiness,…"

"I’m full of hate and I love it!"

"All these hundreds of years, from the days of the oldest poetry collections, there have been poems about cherry bloss…"

"Every worm to his taste; Some prefer to eat nettles."

"You are being very demanding indeed. Where, I wonder, will we find the woman to satisfy you? You really should have s…"