“Water in the Desert”:“No desolation is so totalthat it cannot contain somewhere,concealed and singing,a drop of life.”

“I like watching water drops drip off my eyelashes. Reminds me that I’m not the Desert of Love.”

“What makes a desert so beautiful is that it hides a well somewhere...”

“For a cup brimful of sweet water cannot spill even one drop of bitter water, however suddenly jolted.”

“A democracy cannot rule an empire. Neither can one man, though empire may appear to presuppose monarchy. There is always an oligarchy somewhere, open or concealed.”

“...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be words, but words without reason... Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, encrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.”