“Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true.
—Luthe”

“I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.”

““I think you look on death as your friend,” she murmured. “That is a strange friend for a young man to have.”
“The only faithful friend in this world,” he said. “Death is always sure to be at your side.””

“Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will share with you their philosophies, their concepts of the world, of humanity and of creation. You will learn about events that have shaped our history, of deeds both noble and ignoble. All of this knowledge is yours for the taking… Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.”

“Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.”

“If you have one true friend you have more than your share.”

“Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.”

“What a strange world you must live in, inside your head.”

“Interviewer: So between those two, if you lived in your own manga world, what would you be like?”

“Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part is knowing a speech is not required. All you have to say is yes.”