All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Truth always changes with changes in human life. It is never eternal and immutable.

-- Tanzan Ishibashi

My strength uproots mountains, my spirit overshadows the world.

-- Xiang Yu

Facts show a different face depending on how they are written.

-- Seichō Matsumoto

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

-- Thomas Mann

Love is a kind of creative act.

-- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

This world, I think of it as my own, like the full moon lacking nothing at all.

-- Murasaki Shikibu