Donald Richie quotes:

Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.

Midlife crisis begins sometime in your 40s, when you look at your life and think, 'Is this all?' And it ends about 10 years later, when you look at your life again and think, 'Actually, this is pretty good.'

Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular.