“Enough with these stupid metaphors. They don't do any good.”

“The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues....[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.”

“I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.”

“Everything in life is a metaphor.”

“The world is a metaphor, Kafka Tamura.”

“But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.”

“Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.”