“Well, think of what I'm doing to you right now. For me, I'm the self, and you're the object. For you, of course, it's the exact opposite—you're the self to you and I'm the object. And by exchanging self and object, we can project ourselves onto the other and gain self-consciousness. Volitionally.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“His whole body—his skin, his bones—told him with absolute certainty that he was in someone's field of vision. So what? he thought. Let them look if they want to, whoever they are. All God's children can dance.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You see, this is what I do with women. I start out too strong, now I have to become real, that's when it all falls apart. What good is real? They don't want real, they want funny.”— Peter Mehlman, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, imdb.com