I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

There's an essential order you have to follow in everything. It's a way of showing respect, following everything in the correct order.

I myself, as I'm writing, don't know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I start to write a story, I don't know the conclusion at all and I don't know what's going to happen next. If there is a murder case as the first thing, I don't know who the killer is. I write the book because I would like to find out. If I know who the killer is, there's no purpose to writing the story.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.

A theory is a battlefield in your head.