Aiman

“If people lived forever—if they never got any older—if they could just go on living in this world, never dying, always healthy—do you think they’d bother to think hard about things, the way were doing now? I mean, we think about its everything, more or less—philosophy, psychology, logic. Religion. Literature. I kinda think, if there were no such t
hing as death, the complicated thoughts and ideas like that would never come into the world.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“Oh, there were all sorts of things to wonder about, but the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed.”
― Stephen King, The Drawing of the Three

“A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“Phone calls in the dead of the night never brought good news.”
― Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973