A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.

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

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

Nothing dies harder than a bad idea. And few ideas are worse than the ones we have about art.

Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.