You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.

Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.

My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.

Finally the homeless eel marked its territory, I suppose, and the Doctor lay heavily upon me, moist with sweat.

Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

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