"Somebody asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You don't try. That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like its looks, you make a pet out of it."
I particularly loved that he advocates waiting and not trying because I have always wanted to live that way and regretted trying too hard on things that were important at the time. The moment inevitably passes, the value of the effort always diminishes and coming out on the other side of the chasm you are left to wonder why you even tried. So I can really get behind the idea of Don't Try just that it is far from easy despite the implication of total inaction
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