I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.
I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)
Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and s...
He stopped complaining, but now I was annoyed. I went to the roof and drank alone.
Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.
Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a...
When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant...
When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the co...
What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real.
This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was coming.
The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.
People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they’ll go to any length to live longer. But I don’t think that’s the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live...
People naturally pay their respects to the dead. The person had, after all, just accomplished the personal, profound feat of dying.
Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.
Okay, let’s put it this way. I would like to sleep with you. But it’s alright if I don’t sleep with you. What I’m saying is I’d like to be as fair as possible. I don’t want to force anything on anybod...
Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and youcatch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In aninstant it's sucked back into the darkness behind and vanishes. Buti...
Life is like a box of cookies.
I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives – they’re the ones you have to watch out for.
How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly ma...
Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used.