More From Haruki Murakami
- "I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it."
- "I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life."
- "You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you."
More In War
- "Not a problem kid or anything like that so when you’re in the legal system like that, it’s always hard on a person for the first time to go through some things like that."― Leonard Little
- "It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war."― Herbert Hoover
- "There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult – to begin a war and to end it."― Alexis de Tocqueville