You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life

After all, when we were children, when things went wrong, there wasn’t much we could do to help put it right. But now we’re adults, now we can. That’s the thing, you see? Look at us, Akira. After all this time, we can finally put things right. Remember, old chap, how we used to play those games? Over and over? How we used to pretend we were detectives searching for my father? Now we’re grown, we can at last put things right.