If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light to let my eyes begin to adjust to the darkness.

Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.

Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.

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

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.