Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it may go on. The heart and flesh of an empty shell give birth to nothing more than the life of an empty shell.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives relative. If you read my novels then you may feel, "I have the same experience as this narrative", or "I have the same idea as this novel". It means that your narrative and mine sympathize, concord and resonate together.

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.

No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.

I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.