The human world is made of stories, not people.

How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!

over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.

If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.

The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.