“Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion”

“I’m through with sleep! So what if I go mad? So what if I lose my “ground of being”? I will not be consumed by my “tendencies.” If sleep is nothing more than a periodic repairing of the parts of me that are being worn away, I don’t want it anymore. I don’t need it anymore. My flesh may have to be consumed, but my mind belongs to me. I’m keeping it for myself. I will not hand it over to anyone. I don’t want to be “repaired.” I will not sleep.”

“There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart.”

“Nothing in the real world is as beautiful as the illusions of a person about to lose consciousness.”

“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.”

“Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless.”

“There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.”