You can never trust anyone once you've had to trap them in a cage.
Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.
Anything processed by memory is fiction.
My medium is prose, not the novel.
I don’t know what’s the matter with me, why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.
A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.
If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress.
There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.
When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this country are truly functional, Australia will be as beautiful in its own way as classical Greece.
I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal
When your Japanese lifetime is coming out, drink all the sake you want. Have a little bash.