I am like a wind-blown leaf, with nothing to compare to.

If I refuse to be defeated by hardship, if only I stand firm, the world holds no terror for me.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

-- Ernest Hemingway

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

-- George Orwell

History is a chain of wills attempting to transmit something.

-- Yasushi Inoue

Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to tell it.

-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Beauty is always discovered in the actualities of living.

-- Junichiro Tanizaki

Within the motive for crime lies society's contradiction.

-- Seicho Matsumoto