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.

Like it or not, it's the society we live in. Even the standard of right and wrong has been subdivided, made sophisticated. Within good, there's fashionable good and unfashionable good, and ditto for bad. Within fashionable good, there's formal and then there's casual; there's hip, there's cool, there's trendy, there's snobbish. Mix 'n' match.

An unhealthy soul requires a healthy body.

The light of morning decomposes everything.

Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel Tormé and Bing Crosby. In any case, things were a lot simpler in the old days,” Komatsu said. “Wouldn’t it be fun to imagine reason, will, and desire engaged in a fierce debate around a table?

If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.