Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.
It's not right for one friend to do all the giving and the other to do all the taking: that's not read friendship.
It's not as if our lives are simply divided into light and dark. There's a shadowy middle ground. Recognizing and understanding the shadows is what a healthy intelligence does.
If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again.
If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can h...
I never trust people with no appetite. It's like they're always holding something back on you.
I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.
Everything just blows me away.
Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.
Can I be honest with you, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? I mean, really, really, really honest? Sometimes I get sooo scared! I’ll wake up in the middle of the night all alone, hundreds of miles away from anybody,...
But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.
Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.
And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.
And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too needed ten, then thirty, then a full minute - like shadows lengthening at dus...
A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.
As I suspect is true of many who write for a living, as I write I think about all sorts of things. I don't necessarily write down what I'm thinking; it's just that as I write I think about things. As...
Maybe that's why people don't like you. You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makses some people angry.
My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stori...
I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I e...