When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two.

Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.

I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it's too late. Say what you're feeling. Waiting is a mistake.

I probably still haven’t completely adapted to the world. I don’t know, I feel like this isn’t the real world. The people, the scene: they just don’t seem real to me.

But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?

The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.

When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it -- to be fed so much love I couldn't take any more. Just once.

The starvation of a child has no justification, even if the crops have failed, or the population is too large.

Sometimes you just have to know when the battle you’re fighting is one best walked away from, than fought to the cold, bitter end.

If a bully mocks you, just think about your positive values compared to the bully and ignore his or her harsh comments.

Spirituality is ... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.

Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd.

For those who do not wish to step away from consensus, the creative is useless at best; at worst, it is dangerous.

Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.

I don't like writing for myself to sing. I prefer to have other people's voices to dispose of in some way that they'll like or not like or flatter them or not flatter them. It's fun.

I know the author of my every breath, oh that's Jesus.

Everyone's a different person when they're younger. You evolve as a human being with knowledge and attitude and challenges and obstacles in life.