Possibilities are like cancer. The more I think about them, the more they multiply, and there's no way to stop them. I'm out of control..

Nakata's empty inside... Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can….

You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?" "It's a distance that can't be measured." "Like the distance that ….

I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, making new life. Kids grow up, generations take their place. What does it all come to? More hills ….

From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the com….

It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not be choosing anyth….

Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becom….

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write..

Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely..

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities..

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you..

The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow..

Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake..

I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write an….

When I was fifteen, all I wanted was to go off to some other world, a place beyond anybody’s reach. A place beyond the flow of time.” - But there’s n….

They take the circuits out of people’s brains that make it possible for them to think for themselves. Their world is like the one that George Orwell ….

Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. ….

You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at….

Maybe time is nothing at all like a straight line. Perhaps it's shaped like a twisted doughnut. But for tens of thousands of years, people have proba….

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else..

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way..