“I chose to come here rather than stay away. I chose to see for
myself rather than not to see. I chose to speak to you rather than to
say nothing.
Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.  Yes, no matter how right the wall may be and how wrong the egg, I will stand with the egg. Someone else will have to decide what is right and what is wrong; perhaps time or history will decide. If there were a novelist who, for whatever reason, wrote works standing with the wall, of what value would such works be?”

-Murakami, accepting an award at a Jerusalem Book fair after calls for him to boycott it.