Why quote such a psuchophantic bullshitter.
Because he was a great novelist. My favourite is The Temple of the Golden Pavilion in which a novice burns down the temple that has obsessed him. It's based on a true-life event but is essentially about someone desperately trying to escape from his own high (unrealistic) ideals which have finally suffocated him instead of liberating him. Mishima's own obsession with self-sacrifice for a cause - often an irrational cause - is at bottom a perversion of the religious impulse. But perversions (of all kinds) can tell us a lot about the human condition.
