Our Responsibility Begins With Our Imagination.

The Most Important Thing We Learn At School Is The Fact That The Most Important Things Can't Be Learned At School.

Our Memory Is Made Up Of Our Individual Memories And Our Collective Memories. The Two Are Intimately Linked. And History Is Our Collective Memory. If Our Collective Memory Is Taken From Us - Is Rewritten - We Lose The Ability To Sustain Our True Selves.

A Friend To Kill Time Is A Friend Sublime.

I Have No Models In Japanese Literature. I Created My Own Style, My Own Way.

Narratives Have The Same Power, I Think. Some Readers Of My Novels Ask Me, "why Do You Understand Me?". That's A Huge Pleasure Of Mine Because It Means That Readers And I Can Make Our Narratives Relative.