“ The only other white people we saw during the three days we stayed there were a German couple intent on taking pictures of their stuffed sheep in a variety of locations around the world. Tynan
“ The Professor noted two nymphs with strawberries on their heads, a DayGlo Amish lady, a mustachioed man in a rainbow apron. He wrote Saturday Night Fever, then crossed it out and wrote Drag Ball + Bol… La Carmina
“ One very good way to invite stares of disapproval in Japan is to walk and eat at the same time. Andrew Horvat
“ Poverty and loneliness could be seen as a liberation from strivings to become rich and popular. Donald Richie
“ And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms of the place, a land of tiny poems. Donna George Storey
“ I bow my head submissively and see that my chest is heaving, already dotted with the telltale flush of sexual arousal. Donna George Storey
“ There is one thing I can say for certain: the older a person gets, the lonelier he becomes. It's true for everyone. But maybe that isn't wrong. What I mean is, in a sense our lives are nothing more th… Haruki Murakami
“ In years past, a person died, and eventually all those with memories of him or her also died, bringing about the complete erasure of that person's existence. Just as the human body returned to dust, m… Minae Mizumura
“ Gift giving is part of the culture no matter where you are and no matter how long you stay. Christalyn Brannen
“ That Seigo could go into geisha houses, accept luncheon invitations, drop in at the Club, see people off at Shimabashi, meet them at Yokohama, run out to Oiso to humor the elders—that he could put in… Sōseki Natsume
“ In this manner , we are told, the system of the imaginary is spread circularly, by detours and returns the length of an empty subject. Roland Barthes
“ Purification in Shinto lifts the burden from the shoulders of the individual and washes it away. Stuart D.B. Picken
“ In our modern world, we look unkindly on mistakes and imperfection. But this is far from the samurai ideal. Mistakes are part of the learning process and if you haven't made them then you are, indeed,… Alexei Maxim Russell
“ If you don't have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn't it? Andy Couturier
“ Within two or three years of World War II's end, starvation had been basically eliminated in Japan, and yet the Japanese had continued slaving away as if their lives depend on it. Why? To create a mor… Ryū Murakami
“ Hirota feels strongly drawn toward nature and the natural, is hyper-sensitive to the artificial—particularly that most cramped and constraining man-made creation, society—and does his best to avoid it… Sōseki Natsume
“ It was as if - this something I thought of only later, of course - she were gently peeling back one layer after another that covered a person's heart, a very sensual feeling. Haruki Murakami
“ It was as if-this is something I thought of only later, of course-she was gently peeling bcd one layer after another hat covered a person's heart, a very sensual feeling. Haruki Murakami
“ There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can't. And time passing is one thing that can't be undone. Come this far, and you can't go back. Haruki Murakami
