Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words ….

I may not look it, but I can be a very patient guy. And killing time is one of my specialities..

Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I….

You know what I should do?" Hoshino asked excited. "Of course," the cat said. "What'd I tell you? Cats know everything. Not like dogs..

Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another? We can invest enormous time and energy in ser….

I think of rivers, of tides. Forests and water gushing out. Rain and lightning. Rocks and shadows. All of these are in me..

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality..

I laughed. “You’re too young to be so … pessimistic,” I said, using the English word. “Pessi-what?” “Pessimistic. It means looking only at the dark s….

Everybody feels safe belonging not to the excluded minority but to the excluding majority. You think, Oh, I’m glad that’s not me. It’s basically the ….

Let me just tell you this, Watanabe," said Midori, pressing her cheek against my neck. "I'm a real, live girl, with real, live blood gushing through ….

"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear i….

sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody..

Distance might not solve anything, no matter how far you run..

The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under you..

Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words i….

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context..

Not to excuse myself, but when you have people right in front of you denying your very presence like that, then see if you don't doubt whether you ac….

Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is ….

Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the worl….

It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a poi….

Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep..