I don’t think most people would like my personality. There might be a few—very few, I would imagine—who are impressed by it, but only rarely would anyone like it. Who in the world could possibly have warm feelings, or something like them, for a person who doesn’t compromise, who instead, whenever a problem crops up, locks himself away alone in a closet?

Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

I would really like to meet Haruki Murakami someday. I’d talk to him in my broken Nihongo, and maybe he’d find me funny. Who knows?

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01/12/10 at 8:15am