Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura's version of political theory.

Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.

It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.

There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

if the world changed, i could not exist, and if i changed, the world could not exist

The most appropriate type of daily life for me was a day-by-day world destruction; peace was the most difficult and abnormal state to live in.

Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to what I knew. The one difference is that at seventeen I had no 'realism'.