250 Quotes by Arthur Golden

He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. He and I never discussed his parentage, which was an open secret, but it fascinated me.

Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.

Well, I'm working on something that has absolutely nothing to do with Japan. I finally got the book written on Japan that I wanted to write.

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

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

When men go out, the women stay at home. And historically what has always happened is the Japanese men hire women to sit and kind of entertain them.