“The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self, and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my own heart.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of the darkness inside me. I just happened to catch sight of it, and followed it, and clung to it, and in the end let it fly into still deeper darkness. I'm sure I'll never see it again.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com