I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.

Everything, everything seemed once-upon-a-time.

It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it.

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.

Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.