This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for sure.

As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished.