“The pavement shattered into hundreds of pieces -- sudden fall of rain.”

“Being air and formlessbut for hands scatteringbreadcrumbs, and these sparrowson the path, I wonder:who gives here, who receives?”

“And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.”

“You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.”

“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.”

“Every walk of life falls under the Testicular Imperative: Either you have the world by them, or it has you.”

“Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.”