Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal..

I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport..

The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our vic….

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt..

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its ….

You can’t look too far ahead. Do that and you’ll lose sight of what you’re doing and stumble. I’m not saying you should focus solely on the details r….

I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their im….

It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously..

If they invent a car that runs on stupid jokes, you could go far..

Memory is like fiction; or else it's fiction that's like memory..

I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform—or perhaps dist….

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life.

I'm not human. I'm a piece of machinery. I don't need to feel a thing. Just forge on ahead..

Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were..

I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books..

Pointless thinking is worse than no thinking at all..

Chance encounters are what keep us going..

If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage.

Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And….

Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of….

Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you do….