I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

This uneasiness comes over me from time to time, and I feel as if I've somehow been pieced together from two different puzzles.

The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves.

Deep rivers run quiet.