My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.
You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.
It wasn't like there was some obvious change. Actually, the problem was more a lack of change. Nothing about her had changed - the way she spoke, her clothes, the topics she chose to talk about, her opinions - they were all the same as before. Their ...
The music world is where child prodigies go to die.
If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule.
It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the appropriate point in a conversation to say goodbye
He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.
There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food...If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, bet...
A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve made it past Dead Man’s Curve and you’re out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destina...
I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.
Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.
Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends.
With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.
Durum semolina, golden wheat wafting in Italian fields. Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what they were exporting in 1971 was really loneliness
Once he gets to the fort the colonel turns to John Wayne and says, "I did see a few Indians on the way over here." And John Wayne, with this really cool look on his face, replies, 'Don't worry. If you were able to spot some Indians, that means there ...
In those days I used to talk to myself as if reciting poetry.
You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.
It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical
