And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

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.

The greatest thing is to live a daring life.

True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs.

It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.

Some coaches think they know everything, but they really don't. They tell you what they think is best, but it's really what's best for them.

My acting teacher in high school was really influential, and we still keep in touch.

We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus.

Joy all creatures drink At nature's bosoms.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it's a sad view.