For after all we make our faces as we go along.

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?

all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.

Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.