“There’s an upside to passengers too. A guy around 50, always travels on the first train of the day, always used to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I stare at her chest. As she breathes, the rounded peaks move up and down like the swell of waves, somehow reminding… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion....So what does that really mean? In simple terms." "I think it means...that chance encounters are… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Where I went in my travels, it's impossible for me to recall. I remember the sights and sounds and smells clearly enough,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I wander though China. Without ever having boarded a plane. My travels take place here in the Tokoyo subways, in the backseat… — 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
