Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

by Haruki Murakami

“Work is no hardship. Better than having nothing to do,”

“A fetishist’s someone who’s got a fixation on one thing only. Of course, Grandfather’s good at cabinetry. He’s good at everything. Genius doesn’t specialize; genius is reason in itself.”

Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.