“Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with one’s own eyes,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm still not sure I made the right choice when I told my wife about the bakery attack.But then,it might not have… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All over the world people have developed their own ideas about what's right and wrong in life, but so long as you… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I always feel like I'm struggling to become someone else. Like I'm trying to find a new place, grab hold of a new life,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too soon needed ten, then thirty, thena full minute...” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory. This really came home to me once I started writing fiction, that memory… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“that one of our problems was our inability to recognize and accept our own deformities” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“There's not a branch of publishing or broadcasting that doesn't depend in some way on advertising. It'd be like an aquarium without water. Why,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“One by one, I'll face the tasks before me and complete them as best I can. Focusing on each stride forward, but at the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Eleven o'clock had come and gone. I had to find a way to bring this conversation to a successful conclusion and get out of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
