I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform—or perhaps distort—yourself through that persistent repetition, and make that process a part of your own personality.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system

Passion can’t sustain itself forever.

I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?

Whenever I look at the ocean, I always want to talk to people, but when I'm talking to people, I always want to look at the ocean.

Time flows in a strange way on Sundays.