I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

People lose fifty million skin cells every day. The cells get scraped off and turn into invisible dust, and disappear into the air. Maybe we are nothing but skin cells as far as the world is concerned.

I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.

Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else.