Haruki Murakami Quotes

I got sent some cheese once. I'm not sure if that was saying something about my act, or just because I like cheese.

I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.

I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.

I don't know what humor is.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

I'm a creative consultant, whatever that means.

My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.

When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

Nobody really knows, but I got a little comedy in me.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.

Life is as horrifyingly frightening as it is hilarious.

I deal out of a reality that isn't real. I'm sorry. I don't know what that means. I don't really know what I do.

I was not born in a teepee - that I know of. I actually don't know where I was born.

I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never been sure about it. In the middle ages, I should probably have gone about preaching and got myself burnt or hanged.

Consolation for those moments when you can't tell whether you're the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world.

It's the strange world.' 'The strangest.

Am I lost or just less found?

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

From now on when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I planned to say, Amnesiac.

When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?

There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.

Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken...!