I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs.

I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely have to go to this place, no matter what’. And most of the time, for some reason, the place is far away and hard to get to. I feel this overwhelming desire to know what kind of scenery the place has, or what people are doing there. It’s like measles - you can’t show other people exactly where the passion comes from. It’s curiosity in the purest sense. An inexplicable inspiration.

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

There's no war that will end all wars.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.