Loneliness is a lifelong companion, an established fact. Instead of denying it, fighting it, and avoiding it needlessly, you’d better accept it, let it protect you from going home in the crowd, and let it accompany you to breakfast on Saturday morning and tidy up the sunshine.

The opera is a beautiful and irrational world. One could spend a lifetime listening and still not understand everything.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

I love inside jokes. I'd love to be a part of one someday.

愛とは、自分を失うことだ。