I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.
When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.
What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.
I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.
