That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you...
Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth.
Talent can be a nice thing to have sometimes. You look good, attract attention, and if you’re lucky, you make some money. Women flock to you. In that sense, having talent’s preferable to having none....
Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.
Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.
So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not intended to keep May Kasahara a secret from Kumiko. My relationship with her was not that...
So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely...
Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.
Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?I wouldn't know, I said.Nor would we, said the scientists.
Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control.
People with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward
People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.
People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above ground is only a small part of it. But if you start pulling, it keeps coming and com...
People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.
Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewrit...
Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. So said Voltaire, the realist. You agree with that? Everything has boundaries. The same holds true with thought. You shouldn’t fear boundaries, but you...
Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.
Only people who have been discriminated against can really know how much it hurts. Each person feels the pain in his own way, each has his own scars. So I think I'm as concerned about fairness and jus...
Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.