“The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.”
“I was discovering that sometimes the outcome of a choice was almost as hard to predict or to control as a new savvy.”
“If it’ll make you feel better, I won’t let him touch me. I won’t even let him get one in for his fans.”
“I wished that I...had no savvy at all. No savvy to cause me heartache. No savvy to make me hope, and then leave me useless.”
“It was cool to see a bunch of new fans out there.”
“Unless you are as smart as Johann Karl Friedrich Gauss, savvy as a half-blind Calcutta bootblack, tough as General William Tecumseh Sherman, rich as the Queen of England, emotionally resilient as a Red Sox fan, and as generally able to take care of yourself as the average nuclear missile submarine commander, you should never have been allowed near this document.”