Beauty is a promise of happiness.

“The twenty-four-hour diner, the station waiting room and the motel are sanctuar…”

“[Donald] Keene observed [in a book entitled The Pleasures of Japanese Literatur…”

“Confident that cast-iron walls separate our nature and situation from theirs, c…”

“And I wondered, with mounting anxiety, What am I supposed to do here? What am I…”