the problem with really liking someone can be summed up with the word: “constant.” most emotions and thoughts aren’t constant occuring. but when you really like someone, they are. and that’s what the problem is.

You know what I think?” she says. “That people’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn’t matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They’re all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed ‘em to the fire, they’re all just paper. The fire isn’t thinking ‘Oh, this is Kant,’ or ‘Oh, this is the Yomiuri evening edition,’ or ‘Nice tits,’ while it burns. To the fire, they’re nothing but scraps of paper. It’s the exact same thing. Important memories, not-so-important memories, totally useless memories: there’s no distinction—they’re all just fuel.”

“It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars.”

“God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”

I don’t think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”