Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.

Loneliness is a kind of prison. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

When I have trouble writing, I step outside my studio into the garden and pull weeds until my mind clears--I find weeding to be the best therapy there is for writer's block.

It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh]