And as we live our lives we discover - drawing toward us the thin threads attached to each - what has been lost. I closed my eyes and tried to bring ….

What’s most important is what you can’t see but can feel in your heart. To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seeming….

I miss you terribly sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy I can muster. Just as you take care of the birds and the fields ever….

I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our job is to give new meanings and spec….

But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to do. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don’t ….

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdo….

You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joi….

My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples, some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. ….

They put up with such strenuous training, and where did their thoughts, their hopes and dreams, disappear to? When people pass away, do their thought….

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular cult….

Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears..

Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was maki….

For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at all..

Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing..

Between the time the last train leaves and the first train arrives, the place changes: it's not the same as in daytime..

Whenever I get into something, I shut out everything else..

In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. ….

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge..

These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the point. Either that or I end up ….

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves..

There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like a bunch of intellectual refug….