The Wind Up Bird Chronicle Quotes

#1. I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.

Haruki Murakami

#2. I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.

Haruki Murakami

#3. The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

Haruki Murakami

#4. This is A Moment, stay with it, I told myself,

Dean Koontz

#5. That's all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don't have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out-so far out
you can't follow them all the way to the end.

Haruki Murakami

#6. It's us or you people; that's what he says. And I believe him." "They believed Hitler, too. But you don't believe him; you're just scared gutless of him.

Stephen King

#7. I plant my elbows on the kitchen table, prop up my chin and think: When the hell did the compass needle get out of whack and lead my life astray?

Haruki Murakami

#8. I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.

Haruki Murakami

#9. Strange as it may seem - or perhaps it does not seem so strange - they all had the same thought: it was so much easier to kill humans on the battlefield than animals in cages, even if, on the battlefield, one might end up being killed oneself.

Haruki Murakami

#10. Hell, it is well known, has no fury like a woman who wants her tea and can't get it.

P.G. Wodehouse

#11. Maybe it's been like that for you till now. But you're not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It's simple. It's your right ... right?

Haruki Murakami

#12. A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the street for peaceful purposes. Or, more simply, demonstrating the civil right of the community to exist.

Ned Sublette

#13. I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing.

Donald Miller

#14. I think health is the outcome of eating well.

Alice Waters

#15. From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.

Haruki Murakami

#16. I grew up in the 1950s and '60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan.

Al Sharpton

#17. I could do just about anything if somebody made me. But I don't have an image of the one thing I really want to do. That's my problem now. I can't find the image ... I'm standing still, and I can't find the image.
- Toru

Haruki Murakami

#18. I do some broadcasting and speaking as well.

Chuck Daly