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

Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

A wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

I don't like things held up before me that I cannot have.

A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.

We must use whatever methods we can to understand the movement of the universe around us and time our actions so that we are not fighting the currents, but moving with them.