God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.

Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.

I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.

I never even dreamt of being a writer because I didn't feel allowed. When I was a child I was terribly ambitious, but I didn't know at all what this great thing would become.

God isn't chocolate, he's the encounter between chocolate and the palate capable of appreciating it.

Because we don't have much time together, I will give you as much love in a year as I could give you in a lifetime.

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.