That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution
Haruki MurakamiIn the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.
Haruki MurakamiNo matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.
Haruki MurakamiSo for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It was as though we were speaking in different languages. If the Dalai Lama were on his deathbed and the jazz musician Eric Dolphy were to try to explain to him the importance of choosing one's engine oil in accordance with changes in the sound of the bass clarinet, that exchange might have been more worthwhile and effective than my conversations with Noboru Wataya.
Haruki Murakami