Some things, you know, if you say them, it makes them not true?

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

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

Everything just blows me away.

My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.