I tell lies sometimes. The last time I lied was a year ago. I absolutely detest lying. You could say that lying and silence are the two greatest sins of present day society. Actually, I lie a lot, and I'm always clamming up.

I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt but I was wrong.

Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

As long as there's such a thing as time, everybody's damaged in the end, changed into something else. It always happens, sooner or later.

I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives - they're the ones you have to watch out for.

Her partially open lips now opened wide, and her soft, fragrant tongue entered his mouth, where it began a relentless search for unformed words, for a secret code engraved there. Tengo's own tongue responded unconsciously to this movement and soon their tongues were like two young snakes in a spring meadow, newly wakened from their hibernation and hungrily intertwining, each led on by the other's scent.

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.