Japanese Quotes

I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after P...

Jim watched them eat, his eyes fixed on every morsel that entered their mouth. When the oldest of th...

It would seem that the more irresponsible and crafty one is, the more likely one is to have a talent...

Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.

Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books.

Otaku (おた) is also a formal way of saying "you". た means "house", and with the honorific お, it liter...

To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid,...

Mrs Guinea answered my letter and invited me to lunch at her home. That was where I saw my first fin...

For everything sacred has the substance of dreams and memories, and so we experience the miracle of ...

A feeling of liberation should contain a bracing feeling of negation, in which liberation itself is ...

Might it have been nothing but life itself? Life; this limitless complex sea, filled with assorted f...

I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a mor...

No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they...

Allowing ourselves to become pure point of view, we hang in midair over the city. What we see now is...

From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small a...

I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such...

From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was...

I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from real...