Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.

Money cannot fill an empty soul.

I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.

Just as blood is a fact of your physical body and nothing you invented, creativity is a fact of your spiritual body and nothing you must invent.

Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.

Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.