You can't go anywhere if you just resign yourself to being attacked. A state of chronic powerlessness eats away at a person.
The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.
Next she turned the gun upward and thrust the muzzle into her mouth. Now it was aimed directly at her cerebrum-- the gray labyrinth where consciousness resided.
I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky
I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.
Writing a novel is like having a dream.
Flaws in oneself open you up to others with flaws.
To Tengo, sexual desire was fundamentally an extension of a means of communication. And so, to look for sexual desire in a place where there was no possibility of communication seemed inappropriate to...
I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.
No, I don't think I've been defiled. But I haven't been saved, either. There's nobody who can save me right now, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. The world looks totally empty to me. Everything I see around me looks...
When I look back at myself at age twenty, what I remember most is being alone and lonely. I had no girlfriend to warm my body or my soul, no friends I could open up to. No clue what I should do every...
The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter
I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the p...
Here's what hurst the most, Kafuku said. I didn't truly understand her--or at least some crucial part of her. And it may well end that way now that she's dead and gone. Like a small, locked safe lying...
Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like m...