I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities.

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.