Siblings tend not to care much about boundaries and borders. Having worn each others' T-shirts, it's unlikely that they'd go to war over a border.

The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.

The sibling society is the flattening out of the previously democratic society.

All of Japan once a year will get up on their rooftops, because that's the night that the shepherd boy from one side of the Milky Way gets to meet the weaver girl on the other side of the Milky Way. They all get up on their roofs and watch that night. So they long for 365 days and then on the 365th night, they see the result of that longing.

Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.