Exerting yourself to the limit over and over again, that is the essence of running. Running is painful, but the pain doesn't leave me, I can take care of it. That agrees with my mentality.

My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.

There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.

So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without any webs." She looked up and smiled. Wordlessly we walked over to a shaded part of the building and held each other and kissed, a shell-less snail and a webless frog.

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.

There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.