Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.

Nakata's empty inside... Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most

Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.

Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos.

Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion

I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I?