I'm not a great deep political thinker.

The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts.

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.

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

I wonder how many years Suga has been carrying his curse around with him. I forget that other people in the world have broken parts too.

I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many more films than they have read classics of literature. We can't help but be influenced by film. Film has got some great tricks that it's taught writers.

Go to hell, Willy, our souls eat poetry, but one has seven deadly sins to feed!