No matter how honestly you open up to someone, there are still things you cannot reveal.

The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for sure.

Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.

Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.

Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.