But still, " Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.""You may be right, " Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.

I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

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

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

We took our food order to go, in greasy paper bags, and walked across Columbus Circle to Central Park. He helped me up the giant prehistoric-looking rock just off the playground.

Time is the wisest counselor of all.

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

Poetry is an art practiced with the terribly plastic material of human language.

By listening, marketing will re-learn how to talk.

What have you done today, to make you feel proud?

I understand that drugs aren't for everybody, I think it's an issue of personal freedom of choice.

You know what the problem is with world hunger? We've been sending them food.

I've always loved drama. This is a blessing because I can show a little bit of what I can do, and hopefully more, in the future.