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

Art is one of the few careers without a mandatory retirement age.

Art is a spiritual practice. We may not, and need not, do it perfectly.

Art is an act of the soul, not the intellect. When we are dealing with people's dreams - their visions, really - we are in the realm of the sacred. We are involved with forces and energies larger than our own. We are engaged in a sacred transaction of which we know only a little: the shadow, not the shape.

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.

As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.