A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve made it past Dead Man’s Curve and you’re out of the...
A fire can be any shape it wants to be. It's free. So it can look like anything at all, depending on what's inside the person looking at it. If you get this deep, quiet kind of feeling when you look a...
A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.
A bunch of different people appear, and they’ve got their own situations and reasons and excuses, and each one is pursuing his or her own brand of justice or happiness. As a result, nobody can do anyt...
كل من يعشق يكون في بحث عن أجزائه المفقودة من نفسه. ولهذا يحزن العاشق عندما يفكر في معشوقته.تماما كعودتك الى غرفة عشت فيها ذكريات عزيزة عليك،وأم ترها منذ فترة طويله. انه مجرد شعور طبيعي.
لديَّ قدرة على الصبر على الآخرين أكثر من الصبر على نفسي، وأُحسن استخراج الأفضل لدى الآخرين مِن الأفضل لديَّ أنا نفسي. هكذا أنا. أنا الجانب المخربش من علبة الثقاب. لكن هذا جيد بالنسبة لي، ولا أمانع على...
My heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and waiting for it to pass. And it would pass -- but slowly,...
If people lived forever - if they never got any older - if they could just go on living in this world, never dying, always healthy - do you think they'd bother to think hard about things the way we're...
You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right.
You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress...
You tell me there is no fighting or hatred or desire in the Town. That is a beautiful dream, and I do want your happiness. But the absence of fighting or hatred or desire also means the opposites do n...
You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.
You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?
You end up exhausted and spent, but later, in retrospect, you realize what it all was for. The parts fall into place, and you can see the whole picture and finally understand the role each individual...
You can’t look too far ahead. Do that and you’ll lose sight of what you’re doing and stumble. I’m not saying you should focus solely on the details right in front of you, mind you. You’ve got to look...
You can hide memories, but you can't erase the history that produced them.
Writing things was important, wasn't it? Nakata asked.'Yes, it was. The process of writing was important. Even though the finished product is completely meaningless.
Women are all born with a special, independent organ that allows them to lie. This was Dr. Tokai's personal opinion. It depends on the person, he said about the kind of lies they tell, what situation...
With luck, it might even snow for us.
Which is why I am writing this book. To think. To understand. It just happens to be the way I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them.