A wild person with a calm mind can make anything.

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

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

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.

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

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

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