When microorganisms die, they make oil; when huge timbers fall, they make coal. But everything here was pure, unadulterated rubbish that didn't make anything. Where does a busted videodeck get you?

Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.

It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.

It was spring break, so the theater was always packed with high schools students. It was an animal house. I wanted to burn the place down.

Never trust a man who carries a handkerchief, I always say. One of many prejudicial rules of thumb.

Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange things have happened one after another, to the point where, if I try to think about them in order, I lose track.

Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko