Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. D….

My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self on the street - what do we have ….

I don’t know, I don’t feel right unless I’ve got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where they were born and raised. How yo….

If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment..

Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time for everything. Like the ebb and flow of tides. No one can do anything….

In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, ….

pulled into my convenient neighborhood fast food restaurant. I ordered shrimp salad, onion rings, and a beer. The shrimp were straight out of the fre….

There were plenty of women around who dressed smartly, and plenty more who dressed to impress, but this girl was different. Totally different. She wo….

Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping up that thick soup….

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands..

I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy..

To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and turns of underground cable. An al….

Everything has boundaries. the same holds true with thought. you shouldn't fear boundaries, but you also should not be afraid of destroying them. tha….

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free..

I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always….

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 im….

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life.

Only the dead stay seventeen forever..

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning..

My heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves..

Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all..