People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.

You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?

This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.

Once, when I was younger, I thought I could be someone else. I'd move to Casablanca, open a bar, and I'd meet Ingrid Bergman. Or more realistically - whether actually more realistic or not - I'd tune in on a better life, something more suited to my true self. Toward that end, I had to undergo training. I read The Greening of America, and I saw Easy Rider three times. But like a boat with a twisted rudder, I kept coming back to the same place. I wasn't anywhere. I was myself, waiting on the shore for me to return.

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.

Each of us possesses a tangible living soul. The system has no such thing. We must not allow the system to exploit us.