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. – Arthur Golden

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. – Arthur Golden
I have a great job writing for The Office, but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. Ill put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean. – Mindy Kaling
To put it simply – you know, a lot of people believe that the benefit of this job is fame and fortune. I believe that you pay for the fortune through the fame. I dont buy into the notion that being famous is somehow a good thing, or an exciting thing, or a wonderful thing. – Evangeline Lilly