She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.

What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.

You're always in a rush, or else you're too exhausted to have a proper conversation. Soon enough, the long hours, the traveling, the broken sleep have all crept into your being and become part of you, so everyone can see it, in your posture, your gaze, the way you move and talk.

I think jogging is bad for your health. All that pressure on the knees and back cannot be good for you.

I started as a songwriter and wanted to be like Leonard Cohen. I've always seen my stories as enlarged songs.