
“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
Talking about his Ninja Gaiden II game in the Wall Street Journal, June 5, 2008, p. B8, "The Game Turns Serious".
“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
“Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree”
"Youth and Age", st. 2 (1823–1832).
Context: Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!
“For to like the same things and to dislike the same things, only this is a strong friendship.”
Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.
Source: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter XX, 4; quoting Catiline
We the People interview (1996)
Context: I do not believe that friendship today can flower out — can come out — of political life. I do believe that if there is something like a political life to be — to remain for us, in this world of technology — then it begins with friendship.
Therefore my task is to cultivate disciplined, self-denying, careful, tasteful friendships. Mutual friendships always. I-and-you and, I hope, a third one, out of which perhaps community can grow. Because perhaps here we can find what the good is.
Essay 16: "Flirting with Success", p. 61
Naked Beneath My Clothes (1992)
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)