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.

The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

Adults need more complex narratives. They have their own narratives. The main characters are themselves.

I'm not sure if I could tell the difference—between just staring into space and thinking. We're usually thinking all the time, aren't we? Not that we live in order to think, but the opposite isn't true either—that we think in order to live. I believe, contrary to Descartes, that we sometimes think in order not to be. Staring into space might unintentionally have the opposite effect.

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

I’m just kinda tired. Like a monkey in the rain.