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

It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.

Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.

The corridor couldn't have smelled more strongly of fish guts if we had actually been inside a fish.

I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.