Everybody thinks theyll never get married at your age. You think you can go on all your life being single, but you suddenly find out that you cant.

You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.

the long-distance run of an early morning makes me think that every run like this is a life- a little life, I know- but a life as full of misery and happiness and things happening as you can ever get really around yourself

I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.

It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.

The art of writing is to explain the complications of the human soul with the simplicity that can be universally understood.

Whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I am not.