In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

We're all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.

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

I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off.

Things outside you are projections of what's inside you, and what's inside you is a projection of what's outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you're stepping into the labyrinth inside.

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