When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.

Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload.

Waiting for your answer is one of the most painful things I have ever been through. At least let me know whether or not I hurt you.

When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.

In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell. But they did look happy on this pleasant early afternoon in late September, and because of that I felt a kind of loneliness new to me, as if I were the only one here who was not truly part of the scene.

I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural.

We're both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.