The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.

When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two.

I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off.

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

One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds

But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.

Most of the psychological differences between men and women seem to come from differences in their reproductive system