Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

Creative power flourishes only when I am living in the present.

Don't think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink coffee. Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.... Think if Tiffany's made a mosquito, how wonderful we would think it was!

These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: "I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget." But they have no slow, big ideas.

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.