Dave Barry Does Japan Quotes

“I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a moral person, but I'm definitely not religious, and I'm very tired of the preachiness and obsession with other people's behavior characteristic of many religious people in the United States. As far as I could tell, there's nothing preachy about Buddhism. I was in a lot of temples, and I still don't know what Buddhists believe, except that at one point Kunio said 'If you do bad things, you will be reborn as an ox.'

This makes as much sense to me as anything I ever heard from, for example, the Reverend Pat Robertson.”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry Does Japan

“Despite the gulf, physical and cultural, between the United States and Japan, both societies are, in the end, made up of people, and people everywhere – when you strip away their superficial differences – are crazy.”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry Does Japan

“The method (of learning Japanese) recommended by experts is to be born as a Japanese baby and raised by a Japanese family, in Japan. And even then it's not easy.”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry Does Japan

“Fortunately the bad guys had the tactical intelligence of a waffle iron, so the hero was able to outsmart them by ducking behind some rocks, then putting his hat on a stick and holding it”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry Does Japan

“I learned this from a show called Captain Video, featuring a man named, oddly, Captain Video,”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry Does Japan

“Because despite the gulf, physical and cultural, between the United States and Japan, both societies are, in the end made up of people everywhere--when you strip away their superficial differences--are crazy.”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry Does Japan

“The Enigma of Japanese Power, by Dutch journalist Karel van Wolferen,”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry Does Japan

“Because despite the gulf, physical and cultural, between the United States and Japan, both societies are, in the end made up of people, and people everywhere--when you strip away their superficial differences--are crazy.”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry Does Japan