If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.

In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

...most people in the world don't really use their brains to think. And people who don't think are the ones who don't listen to others.

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)

Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from the exact opposite perspective of all they’ve told me. Do you think that’s crazy? “No,” I said, shaking my head, “I’d guess your method works quite well.