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 be...
Their hearts, lost in thought, slowly tick away time. When we pass each other on the road, we listen to the rhythm of each other's breathing, and sense the way the other person is ticking away the moments.
I just run. I run in void. Or maybe I should put it the other way: I run in order to acquire a void.
As I run I tell myself to think of a river. And clouds. But essentially I'm not thinking of a thing. All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody els...
The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.
If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings.
No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist.