I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, making new life. Kids grow up, generations take their place. What does it all come to? More hills bulldozed and more ocean fronts filled in? Faster cars and more cats run over? Who needs it?

What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.

If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe #‎ running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life.

But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.

Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.

Huge organizations and me don't get along. They're too inflexible, waste too much time, and have too many stupid people.

I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives - they're the ones you have to watch out for.