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.

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

A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.

An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.

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.

An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.