Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them.

How hard it is to have the beautiful interdependence of marriage and yet be strong in oneself alone.

One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not how much.

What a crippling art writing is, no body to it, no craft, really. It's all in the mind and you never see it or feel it -- only sometimes hear it. It uses only such a small part of man. I wish I were a sculptor.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

I find the weight of air/Almost too great to bear.

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.