It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

The ideal teacher student relationship exists when the student is better than the teacher.

I don't think young people need to see the face of the deceased.

In the recent years there have been criticisms levelled against Japan suggesting that she should offer more military forces to the United Nations forces and thereby play a more active role in the keeping and restoration of peace in various parts of the world.

It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.

Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.

The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.