Мой приятель, врач, говорил, что существует два типа самоубийства. Каждый из них можно определить буквально в двух словах. Тип «помогите мне» и тип «я отвратителен». «Самоубийство» по оплошности, нева...
Δεν ήμουν κατάλληλα προετοιμασμένος για το ρόλο του πατέρα κι έτσι δεν μπόρεσα ν' αποκτήσω ένα φυσιολογικό παιδί.
You’re a comfort to me, he said simply. I mean to be. I bet you haven’t been comforted once since all this began. And that’s not good, Bird. At a time like this you must be careful to have someone com...
You're right. I'm the old man who wasn't able to become one of those fish (however many there may have been) swimming eternally in the bluish-green light of the grotto beyond the crack in the rocks.
Time doesn't move at all, I thought in irritation. Like a domestics animal, time doesn't move without human beings' strict supervision. Like a horse or a sheep, time won't move a step without grown up...
The baby was no longer on the verge of death; no longer would the sweet, easy tears of mourning melt it away as if it were a simple jelly. The baby continued to live, and it was oppressing Bird, even...
Once a problem's solved, the things that have been plaguing you seem terribly stupid and trivial.
His eyes made me shudder. They were bloodshot as though with fever, burning with a yellowish luster as of resin, raw. A beast in rut, having expended itself on impulse in a frenzy of sexual excess, is...
Can you tell me which is yours? Standing at Bird's side, the nurse spoke as if she were addressing the father of the hospital's healthiest and most beautiful baby. But she wasn't smiling, she didn't e...
You’re trying to make something relative out of the irrevocability of your husband’s death by assuming another universe where he is still alive. But you can’t make the absoluteness of death relative,...
You’re right about this being limited to me, it’s entirely a personal matter. But with some personal experiences that lead you way into a cave all by yourself, you must eventually come to a side tunne...
Right now you're about the least attractive Bird I've ever seen...But I'll sleep with you just the same. I haven't been fastidious about morality since my husband committed suicide; besides, even if y...
Peril-ridden and fragile, the imperfect human body, what a shameful thing it was!
Once a person has been poisoned by self-deception, he can't make decisions about himself as neatly as all that.
Now I was just a transient in the valley, a one-eyed passerby too fat for his years, and life there had the power to summon up neither the memory nor the illusion of any other, truer self. As a passer...
Kafka, you know, wrote in a letter to his father, the only thing a parent can do for a child is to welcome it when it arrives.
It's a little bit like what Akari said to his grandmother in Shikoku, during her final illness: 'Please cheer up and die!
He was performing the role of the young husband who has been visited by sudden misfortune.
From the instant the atomic bomb exploded, it became the symbol of all human evil; it was a savagely primitive demon and a most modern curse.
The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.