I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course.

My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.

The light of morning decomposes everything.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical