Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.
Haruki MurakamiIn dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.
Haruki MurakamiShe's kind of funny looking. Her face is out of balance--broad forehead, button nose, freckled cheeks, and pointy ears. A slammed-together, rough sort of face you can't ignore. Still, the whole package isn't so bad. For all I know maybe she's not so wild about her own looks, but she seems comfortable with who she is, and that's the important thing.
Haruki MurakamiLife is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.
Haruki Murakami