Watch out for life ... It's harder than it looks.

I almost never slept deeply anymore--as soon as she said my name, I always sat up immediately, no matter how tired I was.

For me, books are music for my mind and my imagination. When I am stuck in something I'm writing, I simply read my way out of being stuck. You can never waste time reading.

you could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind.

Here at the sea---especially at the sea---I could hear my sister’s voice in the waves: “Kira-kira! Kira-kira!

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published.

I love writing about people on the road.

The blue of the sky is one of the most special colors in the world, because the color is deep but see-through both at the same time.

Why would a book in which hardly anything happened for most of the time eat at me so much? It was the weirdest thing

It sounded so weird when people called shoyu "soy sauce." It made it sound like Tabasco or something instead of the clean and perfect thing that it was.

When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work!" (Homer Simpson)

In my way of thinking, anything is possible. Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.

I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.

The beauty seen is partly in him who sees it.

Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.

The devil does not tempt people whom he finds suitably employed.

Red Dawn was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.

Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Ben was a very simple straightforward man with a brilliant quick mind.