Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.

Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?

It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.

The problem was, I think, that the places I fit in were always falling behind the rimes.

The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.