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 don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

When it's raining like this," said Naoko, "it feels as if we're the only ones in the world. I wish it would just keep raining so the three of us could stay together.

Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.

Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.

It is very simple, actually. It is because you and Tengo were so powerfully drawn to each other.

Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly’s wings as it flutters around. Artists are those who can evade the verbose.