You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.

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.

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.

Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage

But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.

If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.