What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.

I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.

I'm a writer, not a professional runner. It's fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?

You live by yourself for a stretch of time and you get to staring at different objects. Sometimes you talk to yourself. You take meals in crowded joints. You develop an intimate relationship with your used Subaru. You slowly but surely become a has-been.