Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.

I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.

Always be true to your friends, just as you are to yourself.

I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop were not there, I think the ocean would be less by that missing drop.

I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two.

A House Like a Lotus