“If water stays too long in a bottle, it begins to stink”

“When you stay too long in the same place, things and people go to pot on you, they rot and start stinking for your special benefit.”

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”

“After three days houseguests and food begins to stink!”

“But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.”

“Don't stay in one place too long. It was the only way to stay ahead of the sadness.”