For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at all.

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.

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl. But you can't tell a book by it's cover.' To which she added a momentary smile.

Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

Colours shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only.

If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.