If you purify the pond, the lilies die

I keep following this sort of hidden river of my life, you know, whatever the topic or impulse which comes, I follow it along trustingly. And I don't have any sense of its coming to a kind of crescendo, or of its petering out either. It is just going steadily along.

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.

If you can say it, it begins to exist.

The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.

A speech is something you say so as to distract attention from what you do not say.

You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.