Never let the darkness or negativity outside affect your inner self. Just wait until morning comes and the bright light will drown out the darkness..

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it….

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. W….

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little. I had not consciously intended to keep May Kasaha….

Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't keep on living like this..

One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end..

Her smile steps offstage for a moment, then does an encore, all while I'm dealing with my blushing face..

Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you. And once t….

No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in math. The role of a story was, ….

I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely have to go to this place, no mat….

I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world..

The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night..

To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to….

And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They should never have unde….

Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern..

What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal..

Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you..

One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish..

People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues..

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me..

Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what….