Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deeply buried rock a….

The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake..

Time cannot be spurred on like a horse..

Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?.

When I was young, I could bounce back from things like a brand-new rubber ball..

Suicide is an escape from life. What is life? An escape from death. This means that each of us must die twice. There is the death waiting for us ahea….

It's a dangerous dog that doesn't bark..

Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens..

A tower of illusion, all of it, made of illusory bricks and full of holes. If life were made up only of imporant things, it really would be a dangero….

The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us..

Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star..

Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost..

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time..

The thorn of death falls from heaven, and its myriad forms leave us no room to move..

A plausible rumor / Seems a lot more believable / Than the truth itself..

Things have value Because somebody buys them, Because somebody pays money; If you can find a buyer, Even a lie is worth a thousand yen..

Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate..

Many people ask why a writer commits suicide. But I think that people who ask don't know the vanity and the nothingness of writing. I think it is ver….

Some people, when they're called before the police, like nothing better than to spill everything, fact and fiction alike, hoping to create a good imp….

When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet... When I look at something too big, I w….

Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight..