"Now I was just a transient in the valley, a one-eyed passerby too fat for his years, and life there had the power to …"

"Every time you stand at a crossroads of life and death, you have two universes in front of you; one loses all relatio…"

"To repeat the error by exhibiting, through the construction of nuclear reactors, the same disrespect for human life i…"

"The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western Eur…"

"One day Bird had approached his father with this question; he was six years old: Father, where was I a hundred years …"

"It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abund…"

"Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work."

"The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live."

"If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of an…"

"The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. The…"