The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

Any adaptation is a translation, and there is such a thing as an unreadably faithful translation; and I believe a degree of reinterpretatio n for the new language may be not only inevitable but desirable.

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.

...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.