That's what we all do: endlessly take the long way around.

One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.

It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.

I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags.

Will you wait for me forever?

The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.