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A question wells up inside me, a question so big it blocks my throat and makes it hard to breathe. Somehow I swallow it back, finally choosing another...more

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A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly p...more

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I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't know where I would go if I did. I feel utterly powerles...more

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When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person that walked in. That's what the storm is all about.

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It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

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Sad hotels existed everywhere, to be sure, but the Dolphin was in a class of its own. The Dolphin Hotel was conceptually sorry. The Dolphin Hotel was ...more

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Wasn't much of a life anyway. Wasn't much of a brain.""But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?""Word games," I dismissed. "Every army ne...more

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I'm alone inside the world of the story, my favorite feeling in the world.

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But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back together like it was, right?

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No, I don't think I've been defiled. But I haven't been saved, either. There's nobody who can save me right now, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. The world looks tot...more

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I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.