In The Miso Soup

But now I’m in the miso soup myself

I wondered why all the people you meet have to be such liars.

But I guess they just like black people, huh?

And his dingaling was, like . . . creepy.

Gay: Atashi Kenji ’te iu no yo!

There are six categories of bonno,

This was her first time abroad, and she decided that since it’s a foreign country they must have a different god and that maybe the god the Catholics pray to loses his power here because the customs are different, not to mention the land itself.”

made her wonder if people here never came up against the kind of suffering where you can’t do anything but turn to your god for help

The Americans, like the Spanish, massacred millions of Indians, but I don’t think it was out of malevolence so much as plain old ignorance

and you can’t do something you can’t visualize yourself doing. Normally we don’t notice it, but we always have to picture ourselves doing something before we can match the image with an action.