Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

If you work on your creativity, you deepen your spirituality. And if you work on your spirituality, you deepen your creativity.

It is on these (20min) walks that my best ideas come to me. It is while walking that difficult clarity emerges. It is while walking that I experience a sense of well-being and connection, and it is in walking that I live most prayerfully.

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

Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.

There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.

I learned to just show up at the page and write down what I heard. Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb.