And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love - Yasunari Kawabata

Time passed. But time flows in many streams. Like a river, an inner stream of time will flow rapidly at some places and sluggishly at others, or perhaps even stand hopelessly stagnant. Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way.

I could not bear the silences when the drum stopped. I sank down into the depths of the sound of the rain.

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business.

The day you die.