Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when... - Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

"Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that."

"People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die."

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment."

"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."