Far from making me feel different and special, my [spiritual] experiences made me feel the same, ordinary, and interconnected. If I felt more spiritual, everyone else felt more spiritual as well. (276)

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.