I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi,' Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him.
To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence.
I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo).
My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.
I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.
Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.
Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.