John

“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

“Never pretend that the things you haven't got are not worth having.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Two: 1920-1924

“The way everyone pretends to be on the same wavelength without questioning or talking about things - it doesn't get anyone anywhere.”
― Haruki Murakami

“As he spoke he stroked both sides of his mutton-chop whiskers as if he wished to caress simultaneously both halves of the Monarchy”
― Joseph Roth, The Emperor's Tomb