Anger is meant to be acted upon. It is not meant to be acted out.

Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.

Workaholism is a block, not a building block.

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

No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.