It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy..

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us..

Time flows in a strange way on Sundays..

The best way to think about reality, I had decided, was to get as far away from it as possible..

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more..

I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I?.

The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot control it. When writing the book, you….

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime..

Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We ….

Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing..

I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string..

People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what pe….

Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and you catch a glimpse of a tiny light in a window of a farmhouse. In an instant it's su….

If you think God’s there, He is. If you don’t, He isn’t. And if that’s what God’s like, I wouldn’t worry about it..

If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it..

Me, I've seen 45 years and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from….

The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and all of the acts carrie….

I closed my eyes and tried to sleep. But it was not until much later that I was able to get any real sleep. In a place far away from anyone or anywhe….

Age certainly hadn't conferred any smarts on me. Character maybe, but mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russian writers have a ….

Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time..

So I made up my mind I was going to find someone who would love me unconditionally three hundred and sixty-five days a year. Watanabe: Wow, and did y….