I think most people live in fiction...That's how you keep your fragile body intact.

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan's writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

Let the world move along as it pleased. If it had any business with him, it would be sure to tell him.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

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.

If you're going to while away the years, it's far better to live them with clear goals and fully alive then in a fog, and I believe #‎ running helps you to do that. Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life.

Nature is actually unnatural