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.

A perfect God is the creation of a conceited man

Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?

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

Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

The will is never free - it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car - it can't steer

Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.