In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circum….

You know, eating's much more important than most people think. There comes a time in your life when you've just got to have something super-delicious….

Most near-future fictions are boring. It's always dark and always raining, and people are so unhappy..

I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading..

Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends..

Even when I ran my bar I followed the same policy. A lot of customers came to the bar. If one in ten enjoyed the place and said he'd come again, that….

A life without pain: it was the very thing I had dreamed of for years, but now that I had it, I couldn’t find a place for myself within it. A clear g….

You’re really cute, Midori,” I corrected myself. “What do you mean really cute?” “So cute the mountains crumble and the oceans dry up..

There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate..

I’m just kinda tired. Like a monkey in the rain..

Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw rocks at riot police. But ….

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisf….

As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside..

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language..

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book..

Wherever there's hope there's a trial..

It is very simple, actually. It is because you and Tengo were so powerfully drawn to each other..

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct..

Never let the darkness or negativity outside affect your inner self. Just wait until morning comes and the bright light will drown out the darkness..

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it….

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. W….