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

What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

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.

Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.

As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course of victory.