Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.

Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.

Precipitate as weather, she appeared from somewhere, then evaporated, leaving only memory.

Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion

With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.

Tengo could hardly believe it-- that in this frantic, labyrinth-like world, two people's hearts-- a boy's and a girl's-- could be connected, unchanged, even though they hadn't seen each other for twenty years.

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.