Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.

You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.

I have read all my novels that were translated into English. Reading my novels is enjoyable because I forget almost all the content in them.

Whoa!" he says with a smile. The wrinkles at the corners of his eyes deepen. "Chicken salad a la George Orwell!

Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely adapted to the world," I said after giving it some thought. "I don't know, I feel like this isn't the real world. The people, the scene: they just don't seem real to me." Midori rested an elbow on the bar and looked at me. "There was something like that in a Jim Morrison song, I'm pretty sure." People are strange when you're a stranger.

Young people these days don't trust anything at all. They want to be free.