An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.

It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.

The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

For the essential thing about the work of art is that it is work, and very hard work too.

Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.