Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear.

Cut asparagus at night - in desperation. When one is very tired one always does one more thing.

Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear.

People don't want to be understood - I mean not completely. It's too destructive. Then they haven't anything left. They don't want complete sympathy or complete understanding. They want to be treated carelessly and taken for granted lots of times.

Fame is a kind of death because it arrests life around the person in the public eye.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.