Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.
I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least five or six that died on the way. And even with the ones I do finish, I think of all the ways they might have been better.
During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.
Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning.