"But the game involves only male names. Because, if it's a girl, Laila has already named her"

“Dear young people, put your talents at the service of the Gospel, with creativity and boundless charity.”

“I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later.”

“Science fiction is, after all, the art of extrapolation.”

Source : Introduction to the Everyman's Library edition of The Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov, 2010.

“When we wake up from our confused state of mind, that is enlightenment.”

“One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.”

“To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their spirits delicate, bright, peaceful. It's never at such times that we become cruel or bloodthirsty. No, it's on a beautiful spring afternoon like this that people suddenly become cruel. It's at a moment like this, don't you think, while one's vaguely watching the sun as it peeps through the leaves of the trees above a well-mown lawn? Every possible nightmare in the world, every possible nightmare in history, has come into being like this.”

Source : Yukio Mishima (2011). “The Temple of the Golden Pavilion”, p.95, Tuttle Publishing

“When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?”

“Just once in a while, let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.”