"As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me."

"Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more."

"We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code."

"You can rule ignorance you can manipulate the illiterate you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics."

"Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside."

"Some people change when they think they're a star or something."

"For some reason, I bruise like a peach. I don't have enough vitamin C, I think."

"I am in so many movies that are on TV at 2:00 a.m. that people think I am dead."