Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you.

Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed the half-inch scar. As I did so, the waves of her consciousness pulsed through my fingertips and into me - a delicate resonance of longing. Probably someone should take this girl in his arms and hold her tight, I thought. Probably someone other than me. Someone qualified to give her something. "Goodbye, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. See you again sometime.

It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.

When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

You can keep as quiet as you like, but one of these days somebody is going to find you.

My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.

The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be veryuseful in the real world, that's for sure.