There are silences harder to take back than words.

The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true.

Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.

Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear.

Anger has been ready to be angry.

Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?