I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.
Where I'm living is not a storybook world. It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.
Or maybe that’s what it’s all about: this religion’s substance is its lack of substance. In McLuhanesque terms, the medium is the message. Some people might find that cool.” “McLuhanesque?” “Hey, look, even I read a book now and then,�...
There's a need, too, for a special name in order to distinguish between this present world and the former world in which the police carried old-fashioned revolvers. ... 1Q84 - that's what I'll call this new world. Q is for 'question mark'. A world th...
A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.
It was a stillness so profound one had to adjust one’s hearing to it. .... The silence seemed to be trying to tell him something about itself.
It's not me but the world that's deranged.
I don't have a thing,Tengo said, except my soul.
As I mentioned briefly on the phone, the best thing about the Air Chrysalis is that it's not an imitation of anyone. It has absolutely none of the usual new writer's sense of 'I want to be another so-and-so'. the syle, for sure, is rough,and the writ...
It's not so easy for people to end their own lives. It's not like in the movies. There, they do it like nothing, no pain, and it's all over, they're dead. The reality is not like that. You lie in bed for ten years with the piss oozing out of you.
You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, through, you'll never go hungry.
Time flows in strange ways on Sundays, and sights become mysteriously distorted.
Only by learning the truth—whatever that truth might be—could people be given the right kind of power.
If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.
Su vida parecía haber perdido el rumbo. Aunque nunca se había fijado realmente un objetivo, hasta entonces la gente había creado ciertas expectativas a su alrededor. Respondiendo a esas expectativas, su vida había transcurrido con bastante ajetre...
For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.
It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.
