“What is the heart but a spring, and the nerves but so many strings, and the joints but so many wheels, giving motion to the whole body?”
“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
“...I had gone into my wife Akemi over and over and in so many ways that the thought alone made my heart begin to race and my entire body began to sweat like summer but in the spring season.”
“Frankly,the image of his father wearing bell-bottoms,smoking a joint, and calling his mother a “totallygroovy chick” was wrong on so many levels hewanted to erase the whole thing from his memory”
“Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she may suffer--both in waking, from her nerves, and in sleep, from her dreams.”
“The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub.”