Sinteen-years -old girls are probably the most sensitive…

“People who love horror films are people with boring lives... when a really scary movie is over, you're reassured to see that you're still…

— Ryu Murakami

“Even when you're talking to them face to face you have this feeling of not connecting, as if the words just pass through them.…

— Ryū Murakami

“Of course, I'm not sure there is such a thing as a real self. You could ransack your innards looking for the real you…

— Ryū Murakami

“The feeling that the world was at my feet and the feeling that I alone was cut off from the world, the sense of…

— Ryū Murakami

“Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody else's story, so we take turns playing reporter and celebrity.”

— Ryu Murakami

“Only time can heal wounds as deep as that—a lot of time—and all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and…

— Ryū Murakami

“What these young men feared and hated more than anything else was being spoken to by people they hadn't met, or having to explain…

— Ryū Murakami

“There in that pool stained with green blood, he had learned two things: one was that all the pain stopped when you stopped fighting…

— Ryū Murakami

“The song was the late Ishihara Yujiro’s “Rusty Knife,” and Sakaguchi’s singing was so bad that it gave the lyric a strange new pathos…

— Ryū Murakami

“But for all we’ve lost, hope is in fact one thing we Japanese have regained. The great earthquake and tsunami have robbed us of…

— Ryū Murakami

“Yeah, he'd said, maybe it's just my idea, but really it always hurts, the times it don't hurt is when we just forget, we…

— Ryū Murakami

“A person without self-confidence is incapable of being independent, and people who are dependent on their partners always create unhappiness. Always.”

— Ryū Murakami

“We sat side by side on the swings. The creaking sound they made seemed sexier to me than a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo.”

— Ryū Murakami

“Who hasn't wanted to die at one time or another?”

— Ryū Murakami

“Yeah. He wants to be a…what do you call those guys?” “A sommelier?” “Right. Said he wanted to see your collection.” “At fifteen he’s…

— Ryū Murakami