“Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.”

“Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.”

“The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.”

“What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?”

“Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.”

“The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.”

“Wise are my ways witty my actions”

“I believe in only one thing,the power of human will.”

“Things can turn out differently, Apollo. That's the nice thing about being human. We only have one life, but we can choose what kind of story it's going to be.”

“If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. (a Shin'a'in saying)”

“I belong to a stupid nation that kill and murder their own people for language and religion, then they call it foreigners interference.”

“We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imm...”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”