Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink.

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

I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.

As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.

I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.

I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags.