You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs..

I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are littl….

Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is ….

How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said..

I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write an….

Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even ….

You're not a kid any more. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in….

I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural..

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or ….

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….

Not that running away's going to solve everything. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn't count on escaping this place if I ….

As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing..

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it..

What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back..

You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after t….

Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time..

Nature is actually unnatural.

Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the worl….

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness..

You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?" "It's a distance that can't be measured." "Like the distance that ….

But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?.