Birthday Girl

“No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That’s all.”

New York Mining Disaster

“There’s at least one good thing about TV,” he said after a while. “You can shut it off whenever you like. And nobody complains.”

Airplane

“I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a awhile.”

Hunting Knife

“Everybody checks out eventually,” my wife said. ” You can’t live like this forever.”

Man-Eating-Cats

“Newspapers are all the same, no matter where you go,” she finally announced. “They never tell you what you really want to know”.

A “Poor Aunt” Story

“Beginnings are always like this. One minute everything exists, the next minute everything is lost.”

Tony Takitani

“In other words, Shozaburo Takitani was now alone in this world. This was no great shock to him, however, nor did it make him feel particularly sad or miserable. He did, of course, experience some sense of absence, but he felt that, eventually, life had to turn out more or less like this.”

“Like a mist in the breeze, his memories changed shape, and with each change they grew fainter. Each memory was now the shadow of a shadow of a shadow.”

Firefly

“Once something happens, that’s all she wrote – you can never change things back to the way they were.”

“Everyone is looking for something from someone.”

Chance Traveler

“If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn’t, go for the one without form. That’s my rule.”

Hanalei Bay

“There are only three ways to get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she’s wearing; and three, treat her to really good food.”

Where I’m Likely to Find It

“As I’m sure you know, water always picks the shortest route to flow down. Sometimes, though, the shortest route is actually formed by the water. The human thought process is a lot like that.”

The Kidney – Shaped Stone that Moves Every Day

“I may be the type who manages to grab all the pointless things in life but lets the really important things slip away.”

“Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.”

“I can’t have a serious relationship with anybody. Not just you: anybody,” she said. “I want to concentrate completely on what I’m doing now. If I were living with somebody – if I had a deep emotional involvement with somebody – I might not be able to do that. So I want to keep things the way they are.”

“What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. And it always has to be the frist time and the last.”