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

“She could see the name Fukamachi on a shiny name-plate by the door of the house, but it was a name that meant nothing to Kazuko. And at that moment, in her heart, she began to dream of meeting someone. Someone special who would one day walk into her life. Someone she would instantly feel she had known for years. Someone who would feel the same about her.”

“It's better to dream a lot, actually. It's good for the brain. Interesting people have interesting dreams. Dull people only have dull ones. I can't wait to see yours.”

“To be able to see into a friends' dream is a dream in itself.-Doctor Kōsaku Tokita (Paprika)”

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

“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.”

“We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn us any praise, that life is not going to pin a medal on us for recognizing and enduring our own vanity or egoism or baldness or our potbelly.”