Tsutsui Yasutaka Quotes

#1. It has always struck me as an amusing thing that the world, and all the human beings thereon, do get themselves into such curious and painful predicaments, and then spend the rest of the time wishing they could get out.

Bruce Bairnsfather

#2. That is surely childhood's end, when you look at a thing like a rabbit needing skinned and have to say: "Nobody else is going to do this.

Barbara Kingsolver

#3. The reason why people don't get called back to sequels is because they did badly in the original [movie].

Omari Hardwick

#4. Just because you donate sperm does not make you a father. I don't have a father. I would never give him the credit or acknowledge him as my father.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#5. To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

Aleister Crowley

#6. My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,
Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse
Without all hope of day!

John Milton

#8. I see by the papers that they are going to do away with all the nuisance taxes. That means that a man can get a marriage license for nothing.

Will Rogers

#9. Dont you think dreams and the Internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents.

Yasutaka Tsutsui

#10. Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

Edward Dahlberg

#11. Which will you take, the high road or the low road?"
"Which one is longer?"
"They're both short.

Yasutaka Tsutsui

#12. I see in my friends that don't have kids, when they come over, and the amount of times our conversation gets interrupted by my children. It's almost jarring.

Shannyn Sossamon

#13. You see, our hard-earned saving are always going to be taken away from us by someone - whether we have any or not.

Yasutaka Tsutsui

#14. Even then, she still held a secret passion for Mozart. When he died in 1791, her grief made her provoke the people into starting the French Revolution. Stepping up to the guillotine herself, she ordered the executioner to behead her, thereby committing assisted suicide.

Yasutaka Tsutsui