It was mostly sweet," he whispered, "and you were the sweetest of all.

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have, but very painful to the lips.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.