The world is full of ways and means to waste time.

I wonder what ants do on rainy days?

I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.

Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It's a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That's why I want to write a book.

Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.