Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

Like most novelists, I like to do exactly the opposite of what I'm told. It's in my nature as a novelist. Novelists can't trust anything they haven't seen with their own eyes or touched with their own hands.

A certain something, he felt, had managed to work its way in through a tiny opening and was trying to fill a blank space inside him. The void was not one that she had made. It had always been there inside him. She had merely managed to shine a special light on it.

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle.

I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.

But still," Ayumi said, "it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness." "You may be right," Aomame said, "But it's too late to trade it in for another one.

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.