To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.

I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.

I'm very lazy, I hate to work.

Luckily when you drive a cab there are two things: You don't have a boss in the cab with you, and you are not facing the people that you are making money from.

It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.

Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.

for someone such as myself, who is kind of feckless and immature, it's better to have rich friends than to be rich yourself, because then you have wealth without the responsibility. You get to go to their houses, and you get acquainted with a level of furniture that you cannot provide for yourself. Furniture, I think is the most important attribute of rich people.