Origami Quote by Christopher Barzak

“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

“As we moved from Tokyo the world became greener.”

— Ruth Ozeki

“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

“though some wicked master of a form of origami akin to quantum mechanics spent the night folding the evils of the world into places…

— Dean Koontz

“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

“The other half, Lost Tokyo-1, has not been located yet, although presumably it exists out there somewhere in the universe, a mega-demi-city of eighty-five…

— Charles Yu

“The whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.”

— Oscar Wilde

“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

“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 city was a paradox, though maybe it had always been one. You could have an excellent life here, even as everything disintegrated.”

— Meg Wolitzer

“Tokyo is bigger than Kumamoto. And Japan is bigger than Tokyo. And even bigger than Japan... Even bigger than Japan is the inside of…

— Sōseki Natsume

“This world ye speak of, Akira, is built upon survival. The strong conquer and live, while the weak crumble and die.”

— Jennifer Hudson Taylor