Paul Takashi Nagai Quotes

#1. New York lies
far beyond these islands, this
labyrinth. There,
once you emptied a subway coach
by simply closing your eyes
and chanting a summons
to the mountain gods.

Maria Luisa B. Aguilar-Carino

#2. He had divested himself of the little cloaked godlet and his other amulets in a place where they would not be found in his lifetime and he'd taken for talisman the simple human heart within him.

Cormac McCarthy

#3. Perhaps you have always known everything important but will need a lifetime to discover what you know.

Dean Koontz

#4. All happiness and all unhappiness ... stems from one having a desire. And that is why mankind will always make their wishes.

CLAMP

#5. Night fishing accentuates the atmosphere of a lake. It is as if, once darkness falls, the character of the pool announces, "I am here.

Fennel Hudson

#6. France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.

Charles De Gaulle