The rain that fell on the city runs down the dark gutters and empties into the sea without even soaking the ground

You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.

In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.

I couldn't tell wether the hole that opened up inside me was from missing you or from the change of season

I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.

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