They had laid the tender, down-ruffled little bird on a platter and appeared now to be pondering a way to eat out its heart without causing it distress.

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

The only people in this world I really trust are my fans - even if they do forget you so fast.

And it seemed increasingly obvious that the world would have to topple if he was to attain the glory that was rightfully his. They were consubstantial: glory and the capsized world.

This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been writing week after week had granted her an unexpected new freedom.

To Ryuji the smile seemed as brittle as fine glass crystal and very dangerous

To love is to risk, and to risk is to lose sometimes, to get hurt. But let it not deter you from loving again, from being happy.

If you love a bird don't hold it too tightly or you'll soon be nursing a broken heart.

The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.

Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.

I don't understand why it's the fault of the media for focusing on an issue that Mike Pence are crediting Donald Trump for bringing to the fore.

What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection... and if I don't get it, I'm going to get this close.

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

We listen, we watch, we learn. We open our hearts and we open our minds, open our souls.

Music is one of those art forms that you can get pretty immediate feedback by just doing it and getting better at it.