But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn’t it?
The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.
What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.
To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one of the greatest joys that life can offer.
I feel like I’ve swallowed a cloudy sky.
Nobody’s easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.
We’re all kind of weird and twisted and drowning.
The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now.
When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.
Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge.
How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.
When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
In the world we live in, what we know and what we don’t know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.
My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.
Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest.
People’s memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.
There has to be pain. That’s the rule.
As we go through life we gradually discover who we are, but the more we discover, the more we lose ourselves.
If you do anything out of the ordinary, you can be sure someone, somewhere, will get upset.