“A perfectly tuned conversation is a vision of sanity--a ratification of one's way of being human and one's way in the world.”
“Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.”
“It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with.”
“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
“There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”
“There are limits to human beings and science, and fiction is one way to expose those limits. --Ono Norihiro”