What you cannot control, you must accept.

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.

Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me