Li

“Tisn't any need for you't'know. Even without you knowin', you function as yourself. That's your black box. In other words, we all carry around this great unexplored 'elephant graveyard' inside us. Outer space aside, this is truly humanity's last terra incognita”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“The trickster is not a trickster by nature. He is a trickster by necessity.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

“the game is not to defeat the opponent, but to challenge his own abilities.”
― Haruki Murakami

“Your "scared" and my "scared" are two different things.'

'What's that supposed to mean?' she asked.

'As you get older, you don't recover from things so easy.'

'As you get older, you also get tired?'
'Yeah,' I said, 'you get tired.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World