Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

ice contains no future , just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way- cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays.

Tengo could hardly believe it-- that in this frantic, labyrinth-like world, two people's hearts-- a boy's and a girl's-- could be connected, unchanged, even though they hadn't seen each other for twenty years.

He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

Dreams come from the past, not from the future. Dreams shouldn't control you--you should control them.