Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.

“I’m me, and at the same time not me. That’s what it felt like. A very still, qu…”

“I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life…”

“There’re many things we don’t really know. It’s an illusion that we know anythi…”

“Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more im…”