I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.

But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?

It is very simple, actually. It is because you and Tengo were so powerfully drawn to each other.

I don't know a whole lot about symbolism. There seems to me to be a potential danger in symbolism. I feel more comfortable with metaphors and similes.

I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do it. Whenever I was able to do something I liked to do, though, when I wanted to do it, and the way I wanted to do it, I'd give it everything I had.

Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Gust have to go for the long haul. Curiosity's like a fun friend you can't really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it on your own - with whatever guts you can muster

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.