“This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”

“Matters of great concern should be treated lightly.” Master Ittei commented, “Matters of small concern should be treated seriously.”

“If the masses are not thrown a few novels, they may react by throwing up a few barricades.”

“Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.”

“For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy.”

“Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.”

“All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.”

“Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.”

“It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.”

“Moral philosophy is very largely a branch of fiction. Despite this, a philosopher has yet to write a great novel. The fact should not be surprising. In philosophy the truth about human life is of no interest.”