“ There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle... Perhaps... Jean-Pierre Melville
“ Blackthorne, beside the gates, was still turmoiled by his boundless joy at her reprieve and he remembered how his own will had been stretched that night of his near-seppuku, when he had had to get up… James Clavell
“ No matter how much you hate or how much you suffer, you can't bring the dead back to life Nobuhiro Watsuki
“ This is shaping up even worse than you anticipated. Still, you feel a measure of detachment, as if you had suffered everything already and this were just a flashback. You wish that you had paid more a… Jay McInerney
