2,618 Quotes by Haruki Murakami

Girls who are on top of things must have three hundred ways of responding to tired thirty-five-year-old divorced men.

I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

A cell is just a room if you don't lock the door.

Energies expended on sideshows, never on the main event. Where the hell was the main event? Was there a main event?

To wit, existence is communication and communication is existence.

What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.

Something will work out tomorrow, I thought. And if not, then tomorrow I'll do some thinking. Ob—la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on.

Civilization is communication. When that which should be expressed and transmitted is lost, civilization comes to an end.

Once he gets to the fort the colonel turns to John Wayne and says, "I did see a few Indians on the way over here." And John Wayne, with this really cool look on his face, replies, 'Don't worry. If you were able to spot some Indians, that means there weren't any there.' I don't remember the actual lines, but it went something like that. Do you get what he means?