The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the drive to wear odd garments that may cut off circulation, occlude vision, make toes grow sideways, cause riots.

Mend the part of the world that is within your reach.

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.

Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success.