The safest way to success is to write according to the capacity of the stupidest member of the audience.

Being solitary isn't a disease that needs a cure.

Mori smiled properly. The lines around his eyes were deeper than usual now. They made him look like an old photograph of a young man, often crushed, but ironed carefully so that only the ghosts of the marks remained.

In Japan, first names are only for who you're married to, or if you're being rude,' the watchmaker explained.

The common denominator is a love of music.

I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.