We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.

Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness.

It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.

I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a stamp on an envelope straight. And I'm always dialling the wrong number. But I have come up with a few original cocktails that people seem to like.