So much of an artist's career hinges on the sense that we are going somewhere, that we are not just trapped by the four walls of wherever we are. For creative sanity, I must believe that if I just do the next right thing, a path will unfold for me.

When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.

At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and less to write about.

A working artist is a playing artist.

And why are we supposed to be serious about God? Did God show up and crack the whip? “You there, Annie in Ohio, I see you laughing a lot and frankly it really pisses Me off . . . “ (50)

The reward for attention is always healing.