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

Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves.

The good thing about writing book is that you can dream while you are awake.

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

I have no models in Japanese literature. I created my own style, my own way.

Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.

I can't understand nothingness. I can't understand it and I can't imagine it.

Probably." "Again with the probablys." "A world full of probablys," she said.

It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.

Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.

Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?

What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.

Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?" "I guess it depends on how you die.

Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.

If you really want to know something, you have to be willing to pay the price.

If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.

People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.

My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings.

A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

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

My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.

Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.

As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around.

People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.

let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers.

That was the rule. Break one of my rules once, and I’m bound to break many more.

That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.

What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me.

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.

Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake.

I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.

They were each like a mirror for the other, reflecting the changes in themselves.

Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes

If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.

His heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small restless body.

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.

As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.

Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.

There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.

The honour of physical decline is waiting, and you have to get used to that reality.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.

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