Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.

The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.

If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment.

Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.

I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.

How much do you love me?' Midori asked. 'Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,' I said.

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.