Writing is a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

…how beautiful it would be to live so far away from my mistakes.

“shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances …”

“The process of putting the thing you value most in the world out for the assess…”

“Perhaps you are right. In another setting it would be ridiculous, too grand. In…”

“The early years he had spent building Nansei were like a hurricane in his memor…”