When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.

The only good teachers for you are those friends who love you, who think you are interesting, or very important, or wonderfully funny.

... the great artists ... do not want security, egoistic or materialistic.

Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up. But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word

Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.

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