I'll be happy if running and I can grow old together.

Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free, Kafka. They just think they are. It’s all an illusion. If they really were set free, most people would be in a real pickle. You’d better remember that. People actually prefer not being free?

You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.

Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.

After all this, I won't start to hate you.

Is this what it means to go back to square one? Most likely. He had nothing left to lose, other than his life.

When I was a teenager, I thought how great it would be if only I could write novels in English. I had the feeling that I would be able to express my emotions so much more directly than if I wrote in Japanese.