There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.

I believe that I am very lucky to have close friends who are faithful. From my friends, I have learned the importance of perseverance.

We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

Our modern ideas of 'functioning' through things are really quite inhuman. We have this idea that no matter what is going on we still have to color between the lines, act normal.