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.

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.

A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.

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

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

Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.