This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me.

Chance encounters are what keep us going.

Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.

ice contains no future , just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way- cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays.

It is my huge pleasure that my novels are translated into languages that are read among small numbers of people.

It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.

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