I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

And then I became aware of all the magnificent silk wrapped around my body, and had the feeling I might drown in beauty. At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

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.

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

Well, a peach has a lovely taste and so does a mushroom, but you can't put the two together.

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.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.