Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink a lot of strong coffee to hurry them up, or smoke packages of cigarettes, or take drugs or get drunk. They do not know that ideas come slowly, and that the more clear, tranquil and unstimulated you are, the slower the ideas come, but the better they are.

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.

We start out in our lives as little children, full of light and the clearest vision.

... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.

Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.

You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.