Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.

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

It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously.

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.

No matter what the situation may be, I still take pleasure in witnessing the joy of others.

my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and waiting for it to pass. And it would pass -- but slowly, taking its own time, and leaving a dull ache behind.

Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.