...I've just been feeling insecure since I was 20, and that's all I've been trying to express. Now the entire world is feeling insecure.

According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning what?" "Meaning, don't bring unnecessary props into a story. If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all useless ornamentation.

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.

But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life?" "Word games," I dismissed. "Every army needs a flag.

You can hide memories, but you can’t erase the history that produced them.