When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.

I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as I start to read it, all I can think about is when I'll finish it.

I was reborn," she said, her hot breath brushing his ear. "You were reborn," Tengo said. "Because I died once." "You died once," Tengo repeated. "On a night when there was a cold rain falling," she said. "Why did you die?" "So I would be reborn like this." "You would be reborn," Tengo said. "More or less," she whispered quietly. "In all sorts of forms.

Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love.

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.

But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself

We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss.