Toru Watanabe Quotes

#1. I'm still growing I take each day, one day-at-a-time. I'm always thinking and dreaming. As long as this heart keeps beating, there will be new things coming along.

Roy Haynes

#2. 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

#3. The opportunity to truly Live doesn't wait. Either We USE it or We LOSE it.-RVM

R.v.m.

#4. I'm not a genre film filmmaker. I'd rather look for a topic that I think we need to bring up and discuss because there's something about the issues in the film.

Ruben Ostlund

#5. With the advent of winter, her eyes seemed to take on a greater transparency, a transparency that lead nowhere. Occassionally, for no particular reason, Naoko would gaze into my eyes as if searching for something. Each time I was filled with odd sensations of lonliness and inadequecy.

Haruki Murakami

#6. This is a work of fiction.
If certain characters resemble people in real life, it is because certain people in real life resemble characters from a novel.
Nobody, therefore, is entitled to feel included in this book.
Nobody, by the same token, to feel excluded.

Fernando Del Paso

#7. Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.

Haruki Murakami

#8. Faith is not reason's labour, but repose.

Neil Young

#9. Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.

Haruki Murakami

#10. On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.

Diane Ackerman

#11. What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.

Haruki Murakami

#12. The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.

John Kluge

#13. Like Naokuo, I'm not really sure what it means to love another person. Though she meant it a little differently. I do want to try my best though. I have to, or else I won't know where to go. Like you said before, Naoko and I have to save each other. It's the only was for us to be saved!

Haruki Murakami

#14. Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#15. I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.

Haruki Murakami