There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Reiko set the ball on the ground and patted my knee. "Look," she said, "I'm not telling you to stop sleeping with… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If she did experience sex-or something close to it-in high school, I'm sure it would have been less out of sexual desire… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Once you’re lost, you panic. You’re in total despair, not knowing what to do. I hate it when that happens. Sex can… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Sex with a married woman ten years his senior was stress free and fulfilling, because it couldn't lead to anything” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To sleep with a woman: it can seem of the utmost importance in your mind, or then again it can seem like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Sex is an extremely subtle undertaking, unlike going to the department store on a Sunday to buy a thermos. — 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