Even stone can be worn down with enough rain.

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.

Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.

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.

I fell into a sound sleep and dreamed that I was at a banquet back in Gion, talking with an elderly man who was explaining to me that his wife, whom he'd cared for deeply, wasn't really dead because the pleasure of their time together lived on inside him.

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

My mother once told me I was like water. Water can carve its way even through stone. And when trapped, water makes a new path.