After I Got Married, The First Child

I Have Survived By Representing These Sufferings Of Mine In The Form Of The Novel.

Fundamentally A Good Author Has His Or Her Own Sense Of Style. There Is A Natural, Deep Voice, And That Voice Is Present From The First Draft Of A Manuscript. When He Or She Elaborates On The Initial Manuscript, It Continues To Strengthen And Simplify That Natural, Deep Voice.

The Japanese Chose The Principle Of Eternal Peace As The Basis Of Morality For Our Rebirth After The War.

If Any Suffering Was Fruitless It Was The Agony Of A Hangover; What He Suffered Now Could Not Expiate Suffering Of Any Other Kind.

The Destination Of The Soul: This Is What I, Led On By Nils Holgersson, Came To Seek In The Literature Of Western Europe. I Fervently Hope That My Pursuit, As A Japanese, Of Literature And Culture Will, In Some Small Measure, Repay Western Europe For The Light It Has Shed Upon The Human Condition.