Painting Quote by Chassis Albuquerque

“The teeming scene in front of the station made familiar Tokyo look deserted by comparison. The street stretching out before me between rows of…

— Barry Eisler

“Within days, perhaps hours, the discarded remnants of this last job would have been bleached of any trace of their origins, each just another…

— Barry Eisler

“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

“What of it? Tokyo people are complicated. They live in such noise and confusion that their feelings are broken to little bits.” “Everything is…

— Yasunari Kawabata

“Tokyo was an origami city folded over and over until something was made of virtually nothing.”

— Christopher Barzak

Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge…

— Oscar Wilde

“The city of San Francisco engulfed their view through the front windshield. The dazzling light of the late morning sun transformed every glass and…

— Victoria Kahler

“The skyscrapers of the city had finished scraping all the sky away, and the clouds overhead were exactly the color of concrete and I…

— Michael Montoure

“The rain had stopped and the sky was absurdly pretty, a single layer of floury cloudlets pinked and peached by the rising sun. Only…

— Glen Duncan

Tokyo's like a huge pinball machine. The first time you're there, and you don't understand what's going on, it's like 'ding ding ding ding…

— Gaspar Noe

“I thought I heard an axe chop in the woods It broke the dream; and woke up dreaming on a train. It must have…

— Gary Snyder