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

Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.

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

I had to wonder if men were so blinded by beauty that they would feel privileged to live their lives with an actual demon, so long as it was a beautiful demon.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

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.