Johnny Clark

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

“Isn’t there anything about life that frightens you?” I asked. “Hey, I’m not a total idiot,” said Nagasawa. “Of course life frightens me sometimes. I don’t happen to take that as the premise for everything else, though. I’m going to give it 100 per cent and go as far as I can. I’ll take what I want and leave what I don’t want. That’s how I intend

But if Bill owns his own shit, he will take responsibility for his negative emotion and disclose it to his partner immediately. He might say, "Look, I'll admit I'm feeling grumpy right now because I didn't sleep well last night, so I’m overreacting to your putting off doing the dishes again. It does bother me when you say you'll do the dishes and

“We’re a lot alike, though, Watanabe and me,” said Nagasawa. “Neither of us is interested, essentially, in anything but ourselves. OK, so I’m arrogant and he’s not, but neither of us is able to feel any interest in anything other than what we ourselves think or feel or do. That’s why we can think about things in a way that’s totally divorced from

I saw that she was crying. Before I knew it, I was kissing her. Others on the platform were staring at us, but I didn’t care about such things any more. We were alive, she and I. And all we had to think about was continuing to live.

“Because we would have had to pay the world back what we owed it,” she said, raising her eyes to mine. “The pain of growing up. We didn’t pay when we should have, so now the bills are due. Which is why Kizuki did what he did, and why I’m here. We were like kids who grew up naked on a desert island. If we got hungry, we’d just pick a banana; if we