Kim

“Maybe we'll have more fun this summer but this particular fun is over. I want it to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally-- that's why I gave this party.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“You know something?" she said.
"What?"
"I'm completely empty."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah.”
― Haruki Murakami, After the Quake

“These guys are fakes. All they've got on their minds is impressing the new girls with the big words they're so proud of, while sticking their hanse up their skirts. And when they graduate,they cut their hair short and march off to work for Mitsubishi or IBM or Fuji Bank. They marry pretty wives who've never read Marx and have kids they give fancy names to that are enough to make you puke. Smash what educational-industrial complex? Don't make me laugh!”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Oh! That is funny.' And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter which annoyed me no end. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince