“That’s what violence was: emotion leaking out from consciousness into the physical world, linking up with the muscles of the arms and shoulders and diaphragm and, inevitably, the face. Stifle emotion during an act of violence and the face becomes… — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“A person without self-confidence is incapable of being independent, and people who are dependent on their partners always create unhappiness. Always.” — Ryū Murakami Copy Share Image
