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

Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I write about my relationship with that Japanese boy in Ni d'Eve, Ni d'Adam - that they reach a degree of reality which is incandescent, that I've really conquered a story, understood it and feel that it is really part of me.

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.

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've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.

More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.