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.

Love can rebuild the world, they say, so everything's possible when it comes to love.

But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it.

It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.

For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.