Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way. 

Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata (born June 11, 1899) was the first Japanese author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Nobel Committee cited his novels Old Capital, Thousand Cranes, and Snow Country as examples of his "narrative mastery," but Kawabata himself only considered one of his novels ever really finished: the semi-fictional Master of Go.