It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.

I never plan. I never know what the next page is going to be..... But that's the fun of writing a novel or a story, because I don't know what's going to happen next.

It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical

If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe #‎ running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life.

Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.