I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.
From Haruki Murakami
I collect records. And cats. I don't have any cats right now. But if I'm taking a walk and I see a cat, I'm happy.
I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people's support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.
Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.
I'm kind of a big kettle. It takes time to get boiled, but then I'm always hot.
Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.
Stories lie deep in our souls. Stories lie so deep at the bottom of our hearts that they can bring people together on the deepest level. When I write a novel, I go into such depths.
My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.
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