2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

I could never get excited about games you play with other people. I can't get into them. I lose interest.

You know how they've got these cookie assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat up all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like so much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. 'Now I just have to polish these off, and everything'll be OK.' Life is a box of cookies.

You slowly but surely become a has-been.

There is absolutely nothing to be gained from sleeping with one strange woman after another. It just tires you out and makes you disgusted with yourself.

I don't give a damn about power and money per se. Really, I don't. I may be a selfish bastard, but I'm incredibly cool about shit like that. I could be a Zen saint. The one thing I do have, though, is curiosity. I want to see what I can do out there in the big, tough world.

Girls have periods and boys jerk off. Everybody.

Pa, kakvo to iskustvo može da ima pisac bez strasti? To ti je kao kuvar bez apetita.

The "world" - the word always makes me think of a tortoise and elephants tirelessly supporting a gigantic disc. The elephants have no knowledge of the tortoise's role, the tortoise unable to see what the elephants are doing. And neither is the least aware of the world on their backs.

Pripovedanje u izvesnom smislu nešto što nije od ovog sveta. Prava pripovetka traži magijsku vodicu da bi se spojili ovaj i onaj svet.