I regret how much I believed in the future.

I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.

What if I never stop inventing?

In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that.

Songs are as sad as the listener.

The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books.

I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.