"Well, it’s down a hill, both of them, right? That’s the basics."

"Women are like teeth. Some tremble and never fall and some fall and never tremble."

"My mind sometimes wanders. Do unto others and so on. Very nice again, but what if others have a different taste from …"

"It was though I had been in possession of one of those small shells with Japanese flowers which are sold at street co…"

"Beyond my upset I was flooded by a deep happiness, similar to the one he made me feel when forcing me to surrender to…"

"You are like a child who whistles in the dark. As though the dark cared, my poor child, as though the dark cared."

"After the verb “to love,” “to help” is the most beautiful verb in the world!"

"The political significance of Indonesian Islam, including Javanese Islam, stems in no small measure from the fact tha…"

"Like other Muslims, Indonesian Islamic leaders—reformists, hardly less than orthodox—were thus by Western standards n…"

"Certum est enim, longos esse crines omnibus sed breves sensus mulieribus."