Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.

Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.

The young man knows that he is irretrievably lost. This is no town of cats, he finally realizes. It is the place where he is meant to be lost. It is another world, which has been prepared especially for him. And never again, for all eternity, will the train stop at this station to take him back to the world he came from.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and all of the acts carried out - on this earth. But the moon remained silent; it told no stories.