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.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.

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

The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.