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

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

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

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

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

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.