Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

The what is so much more important than how.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it.

I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.