Michael

“The past and the present, might we say, go like this. The future is a maybe. Yet we look back on the darkness that obscures the path that brought us fair, we only come up with another indefinite maybe. The only thing we perceive with any clarity is the present moment, and even that just passes by.”
― Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973

“If you can let it go at not understanding, that's the best anyone could expect.”
― Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973

“When I first came to New York I had a theory about that -- about survivors. I thought there are people in every generation whose urge to survive is so strong they endanger everyone else. And themselves. They are attractive and vital with their secret purpose. We love and follow them. And they are the enemy.”
― Marc Brandel, Survivor

“After he became the Master, the world believed that he could not lose, and he had to believe it himself. Therein was the tragedy.”
― Yasunari Kawabata, The Master of Go