James Clavell, Shōgun Quotes

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

Listen, if you want peace you must learn to drink cha from an empty cup.

What is pain to a man? A privilege!

Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor?

Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and see and earth.