Tokyo may have more money and Kyoto more culture; Nara may have more history and Kobe more style. But Osaka has the biggest heart.

One does not question a miracle.

I need to meet people to be able to write.

My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it.

...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.

The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.

I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.