Ed Fogell

“Ah, Anjin-san, that’s because you’re thinking in your own language. To understand Japanese you have to think Japanese. Don’t forget our language is the language of the infinite. It’s all so simple, Anjin-san. Just change your concept of the world. Japanese is just learning a new art, detached from the world … It’s all so simple.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun: The Epic Novel of Japan

“For the merchants, the entire world was a single market and all humans were potential customers. They tried to establish an economic order that would apply to all, everywhere. For the conquerors, the entire world was a single empire and all humans were potential subjects, and for the prophets, the entire world held a single truth and all humans were potential believers. They too tried to establish an order that would be applicable for everyone everywhere.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“It’s all shit,” he had muttered in English, and felt better.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun: The Epic Novel of Japan

“Then I remember it’s January, a month when only the potatoes are optimistic about warmer weather.”
― Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Rural Life