Everything just blows me away.

Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

Please remember: things are not what they seem.

She's letting out her feelings. The scary thing is not being able to do that. When your feelings build up and harden and die inside, then you're in big trouble.

If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment.

The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you.