If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig.

How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?

I'm not embarrassed by my faith, and I'm also not embarrassed by my doubt.

We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.

There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

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

When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.