Walking Quote by Barry Eisler

“Tokyo was a place you could quite happily exist alone and be self-contained. It seemed to promise that it was better to be by…

— Olivia Sudjic

“And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the…

— Donna George Storey

“From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.”

— Shogo Oketani

“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made…

— Sheridan Hay

“The city was lovely. There could be no place in the world to which he belonged so completely. That was why he'd always dreamed…

— Daniel Alarcón

“It wasn’t so much that I thought there was nowhere to go, in this huge city; but with so many places to go, where…

— Kelly Braffet

“The overriding sense of Tokyo...is that it is a city devoted to the new, sped up in a subtle but profound way: a postmodern…

— David Rakoff

“Six years during which time I'd laid three cats to rest. Burned how many aspirations, bundled up how much suffering in thick sweaters, and…

— Haruki Murakami

“I need to move around a bit. To shuffle my surroundings. To wake up in cities I don't know my way around and have…

— Beau Taplin

“I go amongst the buildings of a city and I see a Man hurrying along - to what?”

— John Keats

“The city blew the windows of my brain wide open. But being in a place so bright, fast and brilliant made you vertiginous with…

— Hanif Kureishi

“One very good way to invite stares of disapproval in Japan is to walk and eat at the same time.”

— Andrew Horvat