Seth Kaplan’s Reviews > Kafka on the Shore > Status Update

“…We have to dust things off every once in a while, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you’ll live forever in your own private library.”

“Every one of us is losing something precious to us… lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making reference cards…” (continued)

“Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all.”

“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.”

“A theory is a battlefield in your head.”

“Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness is a story.”

“In dreams begin responsibilities.”

“In traveling, a companion, in life, compassion.”