A mouse who wishes to fool the cat doesn't simply scamper out of its hole whenever it feels the slightest urge.

Never give up; for even rivers someday wash dams away.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.

By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

After all, when a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom.

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.

A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

I keep in too many of the words I need to let out. And then I let out too many of the words I need to keep in.

'Cause we are each other's angels And we meet when it is time We keep each other going And we show each other signs

Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

No battle is worth fighting except the last one.

I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes.

The first thing you see when you walk into a store is color.

Like life isn't complicated enough. You should at least be able to follow the signs.