Ryu Murakami

“The world's worst flavor combination was mango and menthol.”

— Ryu Murakami

“You have to watch your step with women these days, Pops. She could be involved with Yakuza or something. Even some of…

— Ryū Murakami

“She's like smoke:you think you're seeing her clearly enough,but when you reach for her there's nothing there”

— Ryu Murakami

“Words themselves aren't that important. Even if somebody says words that shock you, or make you want to kill them, or make…

— Ryū Murakami

“there's always something in miso soup”

— ryu murakami

“... The type of loneliness where you need to keep struggling to accept a situation is fundamentally different than the sort you…

— Ryu Murakami

“It was a face that instantly robbed those who gazed upon it of a good thirty percent of the energy they needed…

— Ryū Murakami

“But sometimes things happen that no one hopes for. Events that cause everything you've worked towards, the life you've carefully constructed piece…

— Ryū Murakami

“But why is it that if you imagine a baby who smells of milk, for example, you can't help smiling? Why is…

— Ryū Murakami

“To distort our faces with joy, or wail and weep with sorrow, or collapse in agony, or wallow in sentimentality – wasn’t…

— Ryū Murakami

“That was with me for years--feeling I wasn't myself. And I do think I wasn't my real self then. Of course, I'm…

— Ryū Murakami

“And just because I've written this book, don't think I've changed. I'm like I was back then, really.”

— Ryū Murakami

“I wasn't sure I knew any longer what was right and what was wrong. It was a very precarious feeling, but it…

— Ryū Murakami

“I don't need to eat the stuff now because now I'm here-right in the middle of it!The soup I ordered in Colorado…

— Ryu Murakami

“It was the face of a human being who’d been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but…

— Ryu Murakami

“And sometimes ignorance is even harder to deal with than deliberate evil.”

— Ryū Murakami

“...having nothing better to do, meandered off to a coffee shop and sat facing each other for a couple of hours, neither…

— Ryū Murakami

“Parents, teachers, government - they all teach you how to live the dreary, deadening life of a slave, but nobody teaches you…

— Ryū Murakami

“But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting what might…

— Ryū Murakami

“Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they'd choose to hate themselves.…

— Ryū Murakami

“Every time he studied this instrument, with its slender, gleaming steel rod that tapered down to such needle-like sharpness, he wondered why…

— Ryū Murakami

“TV sounds are all the same; there's no difference between the sound of the wind in Northern Ireland and the wind on…

— Ryu Murakami

“His face was smiling, his eyes glittered in the late autumn moonlight, and he emitted a flickering aura that might have triggered…

— Ryū Murakami

“It was the perfect time and place for an inherently timid person like him to express his inner pervert by peeing in…

— Ryū Murakami

“Very few people of our generation or the next will reach adulthood without experiencing the sort of unhappiness you can't really deal…

— Ryū Murakami