“Everything in life is a metaphor.”

“Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life—-and for me, for writing as well.”

“The world is a metaphor, Kafka Tamura.”

“Enough with these stupid metaphors. They don't do any good.”

“But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me.”

“Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even its imperfection.”

“Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.”