A Foreigner Is A Friend I Have

There's Two Kinds Of Folk In The World, Just Like There's Two Kinds Of Life In A Seed. Something Sends One Kind Up To Hunt Its Food In The Light And Air, And Sends The Other Kind Down Into The Earth To Make The Roots.

I Am Not Given To Superstition, Yet There Are Certain Places In Old Asian Countries Where Human Beings Have Been Born And Have Lived And Died For So Many Generations That The Very Earth Is Saturated With Their Flesh And The Air Seems Crowded With Their Continuing Presence.

It Is Better To Learn Early Of The Inevitable Depths, For Then Sorrow And Death Can Take Their Proper Place In Life, And One Is Not Afraid.

Be Born Anywhere, Little Embryo Novelist, But Do Not Be Born Under The Shadow Of A Great Creed, Not Under The Burden Of Original Sin, Not Under The Doom Of Salvation.

To Know What One Can Have And To Do With It, Being Prepared For No More, Is The Basis Of Equilibrium.