Maria

“Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to be learned from everything. From even the most ordinary, commonplace things, there's always something you can learn. I read somewhere that they said there's even different philosophies in razors. Fact is, if it weren't for that, nobody'd survive.”
― Murakami, Haruki, Pinball, 1973

“The problem was, I think, that the places I fit in were always falling behind the rimes.”
― Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973

“She gave me this look – she might have been watching from a lifeboat as the ship went down. Or maybe it was the other way around.”
― Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973

“A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.”
― Frederik Pohl