“Shizuo Heiwajima, the strongest man in Ikebukuro: "I just want the ability to control myself. That's the kind of strength I want.”

“For us, the playground of fiction is just as important as reality”

“Reality is such a pain. Those of us who were fed up with that kind of reality decided to remake it. Wed set up a partition, separate whats important to us from what was trash, put only the things w...”

“If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you dont need to your imagination”

“If you want to reach the non-everyday, youll either have to move somewhere else or get into more underground things. But once you step into that world, itll only take about three days for that to s...”

“All right. Then I'll begin... It's the tale of a man who drank the demon's liquor and gained immortality. That miserable man's lonely, lonely yarn. The stage is Prohibition-era New York. It's the s...”

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

“All Earthquakes and Disasters are warnings theres too much corruption in the world ”

“Its only when youre at the bottom of the ladder that you ascend.”

“Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes y...”

“I write for the kid in me. . . . Often when Im working on a story, Ill find myself laughing at something my characters have done, or even being surprised at where theyve taken the story. Its as if ...”

“If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.”