If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation.

I used to think the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

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

I couldn't tell wether the hole that opened up inside me was from missing you or from the change of season

As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.

I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely logical, rice pudding place, and for the other it's all hit-or-miss macaroni gratin.