我只有一次無言以對。當時有一個人問我：「你是誰？」
Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, “Who are you?”
給我寧靜，我就無懼夜晚。
Give me silence and I will outdare the night.
也許人類的葬禮是天使的婚宴。
Mayhap a funeral among men is a wedding feast among the angels.
也許海洋對貝殼的定義是珍珠。
也許時間對煤炭的定義是鑽石。
Perhaps the sea’s definition of a shell is the pearl.
Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
名氣是熱情面對光線時產生的陰影。
Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
我的房子對我說：「不要離開我，這裡充滿你的過去。」
道路對我說：「跟著我走，我是你的未來。」
我對房子和道路說：「我沒有過去，也沒有未來。如果我留下，去就在我的留中；如果我離去，留就在我的去裡。唯有愛和死亡能改變一切。」
My house says to me, “Do not leave me, for here dwells your past.”
And the road says to me, “Come and follow me, for I am your future.”
And I say to both my house and the road, “I have no past, nor have I a future. If I stay here, there is a going in my staying; and if I go there is a staying in my going. Only love and death change all things.
他們覺醒時告訴我：「你和你所處的世界，只不過是無盡海洋的無盡海岸上的一粒沙。」
在夢裡我對他們說：「我就是無盡的海洋，所有世界都只是我海岸上的沙粒。」
They say to me in their awakening, “You and the world you live in are but a grain of sand upon the infinite shore of an infinite sea.”
And in my dream I say to them, “I am the infinite sea, and all worlds are but grains of sand upon my shore.”