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

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

-- William Shakespeare

Beauty is always discovered in the actualities of living.

-- Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Writing is the work above all other work.

-- Ichiyō Higuchi

Within the motive for crime lies society's contradiction.

-- Seichō Matsumoto