Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.

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

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

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

I had come at last and my heart was beating again strongly to a heart that could not know despair because it forgot itself in the duty of its love.

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.