There are as many sorts of women as there are women.

- Murasaki Shikibu

It is in general the unexplored that attracts us.

- Murasaki Shikibu

How strange a thing is the heart of man!

- Murasaki Shikibu

Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.

- Murasaki Shikibu

Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

- Murasaki Shikibu

A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.

- Murasaki Shikibu

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study…

- Murasaki Shikibu

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

- Murasaki Shikibu

There is more here than meets the eye.

- Murasaki Shikibu