"Music is very important to me. It's a way of getting into a certain mood."

"The world is a dream, and we are all dreaming it."

"I don’t want to be labeled as a ‘Japanese writer.’ I’m just a writer who happens to be Japanese."

"The world is full of things that don’t make sense. That’s why we have literature."

"I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in good endings."