As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

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.

Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure”.

I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something. Say, instead, that you are doing it. Then fasten your seat belt. The most remarkable things follow.

Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.

The reward for attention is always healing.

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.