And I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, 'This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.

We all romanticize the people we adore.

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action would be prostitutional.

…God, it’s over. Takumi, you gotta stop stealing other people’s problems and get some of your own.

It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.