Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?
Haruki MurakamiAt any rate, thatโs how I started running. Thirty threeโthatโs how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a young man. The age that Jesus Christ died. The age that Scott Fitzgerald started to go downhill. That age may be a kind of crossroads in life. That was the age when I began my life as a runner, and it was my belated, but real, starting point as a novelist.
Haruki MurakamiOpen your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.
Haruki Murakami