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

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.

And so they parted, she to the east, and he to the west. The test they had agreed upon, however, was utterly unnecessary. They should never have undertaken it, because they really and truly were each other's 100% perfect lovers, and it was a miracle that they had ever met. But it was impossible for them to know this, young as they were. The cold, indifferent waves of fate proceeded to toss them unmercifully.

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

Time moves in it special way in the middle of the night.

Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible.