Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged.

It's easier to love a woman when you can't understand a word she's saying.

The quality of gifts depends on the sincerity of the giver.

Katsumi Hosokawa - (he) believed that life, true life, was something that was stored in music.

He was in love, and never had he felt such kindness towards another person.

He was so close to her then that they owned every molecule of air in the tiny room and the air grew heavy with their desire and worked to move them together.

Sleep was a country for which he could not obtain a visa.

If want a person wants is his life, he tends to be quiet about wanting anything else.

...as if the world had become a giant train station in which everything was delayed until further notice.

They lived their lives only for the hour that lay ahead of them.

But it is never about who has given what. That is not the way of gifts. This is not a business we are conducting.

Is kissing you generally considered a joyful affair?" -

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.

I will give a million dollars for any convincing proof of a future life.

I think a public official ought to follow his conscience as to what is in the public interest, not what will protect his job.

One and all have to face reality now.

It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches.

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

Going back and forth between the press and something like The Crucible must be really crazy and intense.

The scent of the morning is prepared by the night; the scent of the night is prepared by the day; everything helps everything!