If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.

Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?

And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too needed ten, then thirty, then a full minute - like shadows lengthening at dusk. Someday, I suppose, the shadows will be swallowed up in darkness.

Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.

But I didn't walk a single step. I stopped a lot to stretch, but I never walked. I didn't come here to walk. I came to run. That's the reason-the only reason-I flew all the way to the northern tip of Japan. No matter how slow I might run, I wasn't about to walk. That was the rule.

Find me now. Before someone else does.

As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around.