A book comes and says, ‘Write me.’ My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.
The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.
Maybe that’s the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.
Darkness was and darkness was good. As with light. Light and Darkness dancing together, born together, born of each other, neither preceding, neither following, both fully being, in joyful rhythm.
I do not know everything; still many things I understand.
This wasn’t the first time that I’d come close to death, but it was the first time I’d been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you’ve loved.
My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.
People are more than just the way they look.
Like and equal are two entirely different things.
Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.
We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.
You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.
If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.
What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.
You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.
It was not an end, it was a beginging.
A new year can begin only because the old year ends.