So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish.

Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system

I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.

Things pass us by. Nobody can catch them. That's the way we live our lives.

Whoa!" he says with a smile. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepen. "Chicken salad a la George Orwell!

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.