It is hard to be an individual in Japan.

He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I'm still awake. I can continue yesterday's dream today, something you can't normally do in everyday life.

It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.

There has to be pain. That's the rule.

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

There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.