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 stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.

A memoir provides a record not so much of the memoirist as of the memoirist's world.

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

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.