Everything in life is a metaphor.

Everything. Things you lost. Things you’re gonna lose. Everything. Here’s where it all ties together.

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

In his own way, he's lived life with all the intensity he could muster.

Sometimes I wonder why I'm a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I'm a successful writer.

What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.

The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.