Came across this in the recently published Japan Journals by Donald Richie.
"'Japan is gone, vanished, disappeared... [T]here is nothing left to save.'
When I first learned of his suicide that is what I first remembered - that he already knew that there was nothing more to save. His may have been a political statement, an aesthetic statement, but it was also a despairing personal statement.
...And it is true that a real romantic is he who compares things as they are with things as they ought to be and then has the strength of character to live by those standards which he himself finds better."
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