“for it seemed to her then that she was watching the dead still center of the world, the quintessential intersection of nothing”- Joan Didion

“Like the first whiff of burning incense, or like the taste of one's first cup of saké, there is in love that moment when all its power is felt. There may be fondness, but not love, between two people who have come to know each other well without ever having grasped that moment.”- Natsume Soseki

“Why do we conceive the desire to give expression to things that cannot be said”- Yukio Mishima

“Nothing that had happened to me thus far had been sufficient to destroy me; nothing had been destroyed except my illusions. I myself was intact.”- Henry Miller

“What we want are victims of life to keep us company in our misery”- Henry Miller