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.

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

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

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.

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.

We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

Imagine being able to make it difficult for an ISIS commander to talk to his fighters in the field just by placing a piece of malware on his computer network.

traveling is the great true love of my life

Our first responsibility in all things is to preserve our goodness of heart - then and only then act.

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

If you Christians acted more like your Christ, the world would be a better place.

Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

The best style is the least noticeable.