Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around me I see something very different, let us say - a number of angry dwarfs trying to grill a whale.

Shoes twisted into incredible lilies.

It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.

Time is a storm in which we are all lost.

It's a strange courage you give me ancient star: Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part!

One thing I am convinced more and more is true, and that is this: The only way to be truly happy is to make others happy. When you realize that and take advantage of the fact, everything is made perfect.

No ideas but in things.