It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.

The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

What I'd like to be is a unique writer who's different from everybody else. I want to be a writer who tells stories unlike other writers'.

I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives - they're the ones you have to watch out for.