Can't you see? Every step I have taken, since I was that child on the bridge, has been to bring myself closer to you.

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

Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.

Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

His face was very heavily creased, and into each crease he had tucked some worry or other, so that it wasn't really his face any longer, but more like a tree that had nests of birds in all of the branches. He had to struggle constantly to manage it and always looked worn out from the effort.