“If there was something that all the time had in common, what your English teacher would call a "theme," it would be this: Don't get caught.”

“They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures”

“Laistry....I can't even say that. What would you call them in English?""Canadians.”

“There would be hard times, but what did I care if we had hard times? The branches of my love were wide, and they caught the rain and the snow. We would be okay, the two of us together. We would be okay.”

“So you want another story?"Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened."Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?"Uhh... perhaps in English. In Japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. We don't want any invention. We want the 'straight facts,' as you say in English."Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?”

“Where’s our teacher?” “Probably getting it on with the English teacher.” - Alex Gold and Mike Wilson”