2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

I’m not so weird to me.

If you’re young and talented, it’s like you have wings.

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 countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

I’m kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn’t suit me. I’m more of a side dish – cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.

Even if we could turn back, we’d probably never end up where we started.

A person’s last moments are an important thing. You can’t choose how you’re born but you can choose how you die.

I’m a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.

If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn’t like to be half of what I should be.

The sad truth is that certain types of things can’t go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can’t go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that’s how it will stay forever.