There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things….

I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely met….

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus..

I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhe….

On any given day, something claims our attention. Anything at all, inconsequential things. A rosebud, a misplaced hat, that sweater we liked as a chi….

You know what girls are like. They turn twenty or twenty-one and all of a sudden they start having these concrete ideas. They get super realistic. An….

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

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want..

I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel.

It is hard to be an individual in Japan..

We all die and disappear, but that's because the mechanism of the world itself is built on destruction and loss..

You know what I'd really like to do the most right now? Climb up to the top of some high place like the pyramids. The highest place I can find. Where….

Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come..

My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every ….

No matter what you tell me, no matter how legitimate your reasons, I can never just forget about you, I can never push the years we spent together ou….

Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance meeting could occur, and I hope it happens. I really do, for your sake. ….

I bet the reason people are afraid of going bald is because it makes them think of the end of life. I mean, when your hair starts to thin, it must fe….

I get irritated, I get upset. Especially when I'm in a hurry. But I see it all as part of our training. To get irritated is to lose our way in life..

A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleepi….

This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet..

There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for..