A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

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

of course the pace of change never slows, even when we've convinced ourselves it will.

A geisha has studied a man's moods and his seasons. She fusses and he blooms.

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 on the walkway in front of me, where they sank down and smoothed their kimono across their knees.

If you have experienced an evening more exciting than any in your life, you're sad to see it end; and yet you still feel grateful that it happened.

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.