Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

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

There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.

Nakata's empty inside... Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most

The world is full of ways and means to waste time.