I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

I've translated a lot of American literature into Japanese, and I think that what makes a good translator is, above all, a feel for language and also a great affection for the work you're translating. If one of those elements is missing the translation won't be worth much.

That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.

I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

It doesn’t matter how old I get, but as long as I continue to live I’ll always discover something new about myself.