“Over-prepare. Then go with the flow.”

“Don’t go with the flow be the flow.”

“Going with the flow is soothing but risky.”

“The bright moon shines between the pines.
The crystal stream flows over the pebbles.”

“The days, the nights, flow one by one above us,
The hours go silently over our lifted faces,
We are like dreamers who walk beneath a sea.
Beneath high walls we flow in the sun together.
We sleep, we wake, we laugh, we pursue, we flee.”

“A Woman in harmony with her spirit
is like a river flowing.
She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination
prepared to be herself
and only herself”

“A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.”

“And over the village slipped the days, passing into the nights; the weeks flowed by, the months crept on, the wind howled, and, glassified with an autumnal, translucent, greenish-azure, the Don flowed tranquilly down to the sea.”

“Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.”

“Wave after wave
Will flow with the tide
And bury the world as it does
Tide after tide
Will flow and recede
Leaving life to go on
As it was…
-- Natural Science (1980)”