How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

- James Clavell

Changi became my university instead of my prison. Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life - the high and the low roads. I studied a…

- James Clavell

Why is she afraid?" he asked. "She's not Anjin-san. Just a little nervous. Please excuse her. She's never seen a foreigner close to before." "Tell he…

- James Clavell

You've commited murder just as much as Helene did. You killed a fly with a human head. She killed a human with a fly head.

- James Clavell

Of what real value is a title? The power is the only important thing

- James Clavell

It's always important to take time to study men -- important men. Friends and enemies.

- James Clavell

And Adam ruled, for he was the King. Until the day his will to be King deserted him. Then he died, food for a stronger. And the strongest was always …

- James Clavell

God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.

- James Clavell

Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma.

- James Clavell