Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject.

Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.

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

Beauty is always discovered in the actualities of living.

-- Junichiro Tanizaki

Within the motive for crime lies society's contradiction.

-- Seicho Matsumoto

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

-- William Shakespeare