Thought provoking
"When you catch wind in a bag, it’s no longer wind, it’s lost all its life and is now just stale air."
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
"You are enough, and you always have been."
I think that part of people's problem is they're not in enough gangs. There's this great tension in life where you desperately want to belong to something else and you want to stand apart at the same time. You want to be special, but you want to be accepted, too.
“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.”
Émile Zola
“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get
... See more“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.”
Murakami
I asked him if he really understood that strange dichotomy of being alone but still belonging—of true belonging