Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato were as different as Mel Tormé and Bing Crosby. In any case, things were a lot simpler in the old days,” Komatsu said. “Wouldn’t it be fun to imagine reason, will, and desire engaged in a fierce debate around a table?

If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

Listen up—there’s no war that will end all wars,’ Crow tells me. ‘War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.

[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings.

Love with complications. Scenery was the last thing on my mind.

But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?