Waiting patiently doesn't suit you. I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows aroun….

My feelings of disgust had been so loud within me, they’d nearly drowned out everything else..

He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since..

Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of..

Yet somehow the thing that startled me most, after a week or two had passed, was that I had in fact survived..

But what I could see out of the corner of my eye made me think of two lovely bundles of silk floating along a stream. In a moment they were hovering ….

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom..

Here's the thing: this eel spends its entire life trying to find a home, and what do you think women have inside them? Caves, where the eels like to ….

I didn't say to act dead. I said act helpless..

We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the current….

I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, " he explained. "I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course t….

I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beauti….

No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself..

A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even th….

The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish..

We none of us find as much kindness in this world as we should..

Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it.

Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and unrecog….

We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the fol….

As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Jap….

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool..