Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon. - Yukio Mishima

Daydreaming is not an intellectual process but rather an escape from intellectualism.

Kensuke and his wife had, like all bored people, a sense of kindness that was close to disease.

With a heart unaccustomed to doubting, he never wondered for an instant whether the girl would brave such a storm to keep their rendezvous. He knew nothing of that melancholy and all-too-effective way of passing time by magnifying and complicating his feelings, whether of happiness or uneasiness, through the exercise of imagination.