“Obession makes everything possible”

“You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life”

“No one could possibly understand my purest feelings but I couldn't care less; My deepest yearnings are nobody's goddamn business anyway”

“Change your undergarments every day. This very basic activity is the first step in becoming a fashionable young woman.”

“Prizing elegance, sweet emotions, and fantasy more than morals and truth; wallowing in fleeting romance rather than trying to give meaning to life, when who knows what's going to happen to you anyway; ignoring virtue and conventions to cherish only the pleasures you are definitely experiencing now: this is the Cocoro of Rococo. No matter how much deep thought, hard work, and agonizing effort went into coaxing out some insight, if that insight is boring, or not beautiful, it doesn't matter. And even if something is made just for laughs, if you find it pleasing, it has value. Other people's opinions and labor do not figure into your assessment; choosing things with your own personal sense of "I like this, I don't like that" is the ultimate individualism that sustains the very foundation of Rococo. Rococo, therefore, embodies the spirit of punk rock and anarchism more than any philosophy. Only in Rococo—elegant yet in bad taste, extravagant yet defiant and lawless—can I discover the meaning of life.”

“People born in Amagasaki grow up, get married, have children, and die wearing tracksuits.”

“Snatching happiness takes a lot more courage than enduring unhappiness.”