Eating with chopsticks can seem easy once you've managed to learn how to pick up sushi without it falling apart, but there is more to it than just that.
You must be careful while eating with chopsticks, since sometimes what you do with them can resemble a funeral ceremony. Therefore no sticking the chopsticks up-right into your rice or passing on food from chopstick to chopstick (from another person). Don't point chopsticks at people either.
The one thing I find hardest to master though, is NO HOLDING ON TO YOUR CHOPSTICKS IF YOU'RE NOT USING THEM. If you're talking with someone and stop eating because you have something to say, I always keep holding on to my chopsticks, but it's actually really rude to do so.
In some Japanese restaurants they will provide you with a chopstick holder, but if the chopsticks are disposable they won't. Still, you can easily make an origami one of your own out of the wrapper. On the left you can see how the standard one is made. Of course you can make any origami figure that is square enough so the chopsticks don't roll off.
Once you've got the holder, just remember to never cross your chopsticks when resting them on the holder; they always must be parallel.
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