You're not going to impose the patriarchal paradigm on me.

We imagine people as animals or gods. -But she was just a person, a girl.

I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up.

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

There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out; geniuses discover that which no one has ever previously discovered. Prodigies learn; geniuses do.

there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars

My responsibility is to try to tell true stories. To me a true story is always hopeful, but never simply, uncomplicatedly happy.