A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.

Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.

Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life.

Life is too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters.

A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.

Affirmations are not bound up in rules. An affirmation can be long or short, poetic or plain. If you love a phrase and find that it helps you, that is a valid affirmation.

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.