To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.

Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.

Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?

People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.

This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.

A theory is a battlefield in your head.