“Start writing by thinking, not wrestling with words.”

“Remember yourself. Deep inside, you have an observer, a constant neutral witness to your posture, gesture, facial expression, breathing, taste, impressions of light and sound. Don't leap to interpr...”

“If you'd blush saying something in person, don't write it.”

“To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.”

“Guilt loves the passive.”

“Your language indicates──and limits──what you think.”

“We are looking for a tongue that speaks with reverence for life, searching for an ecology of mind. Without it, we have no home, no place of our own within the creation. It is not only the vocabular...”

“But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.”

“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe wh...”

“Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic.”

“Each pain indeed comes with its time limit.”

“Be wise. Banish the self-limiting words: I dont know how to I cant do that because I never have any money Every negative phrase you utter in a day, is like poison to your soul. Your subconscious...”

“Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers. ”

“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”

“I could not think without writing.”