I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now.

It's a great road map to jog your memory.

I think memory is the most important asset of human beings. It’s a kind of fuel; it burns and it warms you. My memory is like a chest: There are so many drawers in that chest, and when I want to be a fifteen-year-old boy, I open up a certain drawer and I find the scenery I saw when I was a boy in Kobe. I can smell the air, and I can touch the ground, and I can see the green of the trees. That’s why I want to write a book.

I didn't want to just go from memory. So I did research, getting Emily Post books and making notes. I really wanted to know that what I was sharing with the girls was correct. Every year they invite me back, and every year the program becomes more elaborate. I keep adding more subjects.

There has been a lot of suspicious, maybe hazing, deaths in the last couple of years-in the last five or six years.

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.