"'Stop! ... Go! ... Stop! ... Go! ...'"

The Sound of Waves, Yukio Mishima

"This boy who was so inexpert at thinking was surprised to discover that one of the expected properties of thought was its efficacy as a timekiller."

The Sound of Waves, Yukio Mishima

"All this she knew. The interior of the house dark even at noon, the somber pangs of childbirth, the gloom at the bottom of the sea--these were the series of interrelated worlds in which she lived her life."

The Sound of Waves, Yukio Mishima