And when you come back to Japan next summer, let's have that date or whatever you want to call it. We can go to the zoo or the botanical garden or the aquarium, and then we'll have the most politically correct and scrumptious omelets we can find.

I used to run a full marathon in three hours and 25 or 26 minutes. Not any more.

Still, in the end, we all die just the same.

It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished.

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.

That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.