If Americans are to read something that is difficult, they will only do so supposing they will be admired for having done it.

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life.

Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another.

I don't think anything needs to happen in a book.

The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.