If you want everything to be nice and straight all the time, then go live in a world made with a triungular ruler.

If she did experience sex-or something close to it-in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curiosity.

Wherever there's hope there's a trial.

You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?

Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.

I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer. Some choosy people say that a too cold beer doesn't taste good, but I couldn't disagree more. The first beer should be so cold you can't even taste it. The second one should be a little less chilled, but I want that first one to be like ice. I want it to be so cold my temples throb with pain. This is my own personal preference of course.

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