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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.

Meditation is a magical way to merge the finite mind with the universal infinite mind.

In life there are squares and there are circles, sometimes it's best to be an oblong

When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.

Love is such an arbitrary thing. I love my mom. I love pancakes.

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

I am never at picnics. The ground was not meant to be sat upon in its raw state, I feel sure, and I prefer my food without either caterpillars or drafts!

If the American press corps were as concerned about the Tenth Amendment as it has been protecting the First and trying to get rid of the Second, this would be a far different country.

I was 'attitude' in this place before it was a catchphrase!