Maybe the only thing I can definitely say about is this: That’s life. Maybe the only thing we can do is accept it, without really knowing what’s going on.

Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.

[...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.