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

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

Who are the people, for example, to whom you go for advice? Not to the hard, practical ones who can tell you exactly what to do, but to the listeners; that is, the kindest, least censorious, least bossy people you know. It is because by pouring out your problem to them, you then know what to do about it yourself.

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

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

Duty should be a byproduct.