There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

This was never any place I was meant to be. This isn’t a place for me.

What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.

It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.

Hatsumi had a pretty good idea that Nagasawa was sleeping around, but she never complained to him. She was seriously in love with him, but she never made demands. 'I don't deserve a girl like Hatsumi,' Nagasawa once said to me. I had to agree with him.

I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be..... But that's the fun of writing a novel or a story, because I don't know what's going to happen next.

People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.