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

When a man takes a mistress, he doesn't turn around and divorce his wife.

Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.

I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

No one knows the author of memoir so well like himself.

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.