Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

Almost nothing beautiful or brilliant happens unless a person has thought about it a lot.

The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.

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

The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California is Beach Boys country, but San Francisco has that moody thing going on, those blues notes wrapped in moisture, an atmosphere that tempers California dreaming and makes life more real. The fog brings reality, but it is still a California reality, one spent outdoors the whole year round.

When you consciously decide to breathe more slowly and deeply, you alert your body to the fact that you want it to behave differently. You are not just changing your breathing pattern, you are making a full-body announcement that you are entering into a different relationship with your mind and your body.

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.