Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

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.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.

Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds.

Camera's are cheap. It's the lenses that are expensive.

The truth just happens - lies take time to make.

Whenever I go overseas I buy funny eyelashes. For example the same brand that are in Japan and England are different styles. So I bought both.

And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever.

Our history is an aggregate of last moments

To manage one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for

Background for Humans