Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through the grasses of the field. How would he know? If we want to hear about the field on the other hand, no one is in a better circumstance to tell us-so long as we keep in mind that we are missing all those things the rabbit was in no position to observe.

Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.

Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.

A woman who acts like a fool is a fool.

I've lived my life again just telling it to you.

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

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