You know, eating's much more important than most people think. There comes a time in your life when you've just got to have something super-delicious. And when you're standing at that crossroads your whole life can change, depending on which one you go into - the good restaurant or the awful one.
Haruki MurakamiA person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.
Haruki MurakamiMy heroes don't have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don't know how, so they talk to themselves.
Haruki MurakamiI always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.
Haruki MurakamiEverybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shakes me up. What I'd really like to do is find a way to communicate that feeling to another person.
Haruki Murakami