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

Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures.

Treating myself like a precious object will make me strong.

The heart of creativity is an experience of the mystical union; the heart of the mystical union is an experience of creativity.

Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.

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.

Rather than being taught to ask ourselves who we are, we are schooled to ask others. We are, in effect, trained to listen to others’ versions of ourselves.