“After you have a psalter you will want and hanker after a breviary, after you have a breviary you will sit in an armchair like a great prelate, saying to your brother “Bring me my breviary.” St. Francis of Assisi.
I love the recognition that simplicity is hard to sustain, that we will want ever more. Isn’t that true with writing. How can I resist the urge to embellish?
…you should take a page from my book and live a more spartan, uncluttered existence. The occasional embellishment (an exclamation point, for example) is fine, of course, but true simplicity is only obtained once you’ve acquired enough junk to realize you don’t need it anymore.