“From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.”

“Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.”

“And, before science had caught up with the legend, the legend had swallowed science and everything.”

“Japan is probably the best... example of the abandonment of an ancient and nature-oriented ethos for the spirit of progress, Western style.”

“The window apparently wanted only to take his thoughts back. Which was fine with him, for he had seen the metal face of the age and had been so stunned by it that when he thought into the future, all he could vision was a world from which everything he had counted important had been banished or had willingly fled.”

“... perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead...”