“One very good way to invite stares of disapproval in Japan is to walk and eat at the same time.”
“She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.”
“I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don’t like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa.”
“To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can’t eat it.”
“I couldn't believe this. My first very good friend had run off to Japan and never written me and now my second very good friend had stolen my cat.”
“All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed.”