War may be an auction for countries. For soldiers it's a lottery.

Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.

Nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

The best way to get out of debt is not to seek to get out of debt, but to seek to create wealth

Japanese food makes me feel particularly good.