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

One impossible day, of an impossible month, of an impossible year.

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.

Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.

Where are you now?’ Where was I now? Gripping the receiver, I raised my hand and turned to see what lay beyond the telephone booth. Where was I now? I had no idea. No idea at all. Where was this place? All that flashed into my eyes were the countless shapes of people walking by to nowhere. Again and again, I called out for Midori from the dead center of this place that was no place.