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

Friendship is a precious thing, Sayuri. One mustn't throw it away.

Every man has his destiny. But who needs to go to a fortune-teller to find it? Do I go to a chef to find out if I'm hungry?

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

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.

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

Sometimes we get through adversity only by imagining what the world might be like if our dreams should ever come true.