When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.

How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

I was reduced to pure concept. My flesh had dissolved; my form had dissipated. I floated in space. Liberated of my corporeal being, but without dispensation to go anywhere else.I was adrift in the void. Somewhere across the fine line separating nightmare from reality.

He appeared before me and departed. We were not able to speak to or touch each other. But in that short interval, he transformed many things inside me. He literally stirred my mind and body the way a spoon stirs a cup of cocoa, down to the depths of my internal organs and my womb.

You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.

Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.