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

I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.

Time is the speed at which the past decays.

Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core.

The her that lived in her looked out through her eyes, through my eyes, and at the me that lives in me.

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.