Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible.

I'd made it back to the land of the living. No matter how boring or mediocre a world it might be, this was it.

By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was this entity known as me. I run; therefore I am.

What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing?

Crying is personal. On the other hand, laughing is more general . Laughing makes our hearts wider.

I think of myself as more the non-turn-on type. so when I do get turned on, I don’t trust it, I have to investigate the source.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.