I was a teenager when that [referring to WW2] started and of course wars are fought by teenagers. Do you realize that? They really should be fought b… - James Clavell

"Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars." (Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio-1986)

I prefer the mist that surrounds me. Yes, I don’t like a lot of what I see nowadays.

Changi changed everyone, changed values permanently. For instance, it gave you a dullness about death — we saw too much of it to have the same sort of meaning to outsiders, to normal people. We are a generation of dinosaurs, we the few who survived. I suppose anyone who goes to war, any war, sees life with different eyes if they end up in one piece. What did you see? A lot of bull that's worshipped as the be-all and end-all of existence. So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine. … What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

If the Truth is already clear, what is the use of meditation?’ ” “ ‘And if the Truth is hidden?’ ” Toranaga said. “ ‘It’s already clear,’ ” Hiro-matsu answered correctly. The quotation was from the ancient Tantric Buddhist teacher, Saraha.