There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are wh….

The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remai….

It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day..

Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy..

Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?.

I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself t….

Mountains, according to the angle of view, the season, the time of day, the beholder's frame of mind, or any one thing, can effectively change their ….

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the s….

I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. ….

Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people like an ele….

Love and used Subarus were two different things. Weren't they?.

I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world….

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, t….

What we see before us is just one tiny part of the world. We get in the habit of thinking, this is the world, but that's not true at all. The real wo….

I'm a writer. I don't support any war. That's my principle..

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you ….

I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to….

I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words come out. Wrong or sometimes ….

And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind..

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away..

Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him..