“My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh.But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain.”
“Somebody is observing my writings, I know that.That's one reason why I keep reading and writing.”
“Somebody must trespass on the taboos of modern nationalism, in the interests of human reason. Business can't. Diplomacy won't. It has to be people like us.”
“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”
“The law may upset reason but reason may never upset the law, or our whole society will shred like an old tatami. The law may be used to confound reason, reason must certainly not be used to overthrow the law.”
“Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.”