Haruki Murakami Quotes

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, especially when we're young, trying to figure out who we are, doing things that are the polar opposite of our characteristics.

In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.

I see a lot of possibilities in the age of my characters - between 18 and 21. You have a window of opportunity when you leave your childhood behind and have this chance to become what you always wanted to be. For me, that was a time when I could have gone many different ways. I was in flux and deciding what kind of person I would become. There's something interesting about the vision of what that will be and the reality of making that happen, and how you really are what you are. Unless you're "in character," it's impossible to get around that.

I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.

Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.

I don't think one moment in somebody's life is going to define them.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

How does anybody change from the time that they're 18 till they're 25? Everything kind of changes. You see the world much differently, and you get your priorities in order a little bit more.

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.

The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.

In your mid-twenties, the paint is still wet on who you are.

I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.

'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into a man, and I was so fascinated by the values. I believe in it.

Post-adolescence reaches usually into the late 30s.

Our lives teach us who we are.

I think that until we're 21, human beings don't get to know themselves very much.

I feel like at 18, you're half of someone else, as opposed to all of yourself. You're still figuring yourself out.

I think you do a lot of your growing as a human being between the ages of 13 and 18.

It was only when I got to 21 that my personality started coming out a little bit more.

I think all my life's story is condensed in my face. It is neither innocent nor coy. It speaks volumes.

Hargrave made me mature. It made me grow up, and I needed that.

I feel like we're always learning about ourselves, but at twelve, you're learning big things that shape your identity.

Playing four years of college, you learn a lot; you learn more about yourself than anything.