By The Time We Arrived,

I Will Think Of You Every Time I Need To Be Reminded That There Is Beauty And Goodness In The World.

We Don't Become Geisha Because We Want Our Lives To Be Happy; We Become Geisha Because We Have No Choice.

As An American Man Of The 1990s Writing About A Japanese Woman Of The 1930s, I Needed To Cross Three Cultural Divides - Man To Woman, American To Japanese, And Present To Past.

Of Course, A Sign Doesn't Mean Anything Unless You Know How To Interpret It.

At The Temple There Is A Poem Called "loss" Carved Into The Stone. It Has Three Words, But The Poet Has Scratched Them Out. You Cannot Read Loss, Only Feel It.