"the notion that one's goal in life is to be happy, that your own happiness is the goal. i just don't buy it. ... i mean, happiness is... (pause) ...I've heard

"the notion that one's goal in life is to be happy, that your own happiness is the goal. i just don't buy it. ... i mean, happiness is... (pause) ...I've heard from several people an now I wonder... (pause) ...is that what postwar democracy has amounted to?" -- Hayao Miyazaki (of Studio Ghibli) in "The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness"