I get up early in the morning, 4 o'clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that's enough. In the afternoon, I run.

Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people.

You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?" "It's a distance that can't be measured." "Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.

In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next.

There has to be pain. That's the rule.

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.