Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live..

At my core, there is nothing. Neither is it parched wastelands. At my core, there is love. I'll go on loving that ten-year-old boy named Tengo foreve….

Me, I've seen 45 years and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from….

The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible..

I collect records. And cats. I don't have any cats right now. But if I'm taking a walk and I see a cat, I'm happy..

Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We ….

If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it..

It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy..

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime..

Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a ….

Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing..

If she did experience sex-or something close to it-in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire or love than literary curios….

I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I?.

..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning..

I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string..

I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can'….

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intention….

It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition..

The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot control it. When writing the book, you….

People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what pe….