“There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.”
“everything that is deep loves the mask”
“I’ve always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask...”
“If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.”
“It's hard for a masked man to hide behind a mask when he isn't wearing one.”
“Knowledge was a personal life preserver you could always count on when you were swimming in the deep end”