Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
you mean machines are like humans?" I shook my head. "No, not like humans. With machines the feeling is, well, more finite.… — 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