But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.

No matter how beautiful the outside may be, the inside still has feelings and needs that just words don't fulfill.

As Lao Tzu says, "The Tao that can be named is not the true Tao".

Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be able to stand looking at it. But it's when we're willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.

The responsibility of the artist is to transcend the human ego.