Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

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

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

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

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 think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.