When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.

The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.

What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have

The thoughts that occur to me while I’m running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky.