It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.

A novelist needs to know his own strong points and weak points.

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

If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

I think we think in terms of stories.

Trees're always a relief, after people.