You can sweat by not practicing or you can pick up your clarinet. There's good sweat and there's bad sweat.

Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.

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

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

Creativity is the marriage humanity makes with eternity.

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.

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.