One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.
The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.
I say things, but I say them indirectly. At the same time, I try to make my images as direct as possible.
I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.
The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.
The artist must say it without saying it.
The things I enjoy most as I watch the movie are the things that came through without even thinking.
Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.
