What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez must have experienced everything in his novels.

Somewhere in his body--perhaps in the marrow of his bones--he would continue to feel her absence.

An expectation was there, mixed in with so many other emotions - excitement, resignation, hesitation, confusion, fear - that would well up then wither on the vine. You're optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.