Only in hindsight can we see the moments where our lives skewed off-course, where we traveled down the wrong path, where the worst lies we told were the ones we told ourselves.

I could feel it--inside, and I decided that night, reading poetry beneath a caged light bulb, that real was when you could fee your whole body light up from within.

Ruri: Is it possible that Shuichiro gets more cuddly every day?Hari: Indubitably...

Every vote counts and every vote must be counted

It might not be rational, but I am terrified of getting stuck in an elevator with a bear.

By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.

I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words.

There is no place more delightful than home.

The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.

It is clear that the international community has no other universal organisation of the likes of the United Nations.