No matter what your age or your life path, whether making art is your career or your hobby or your dream, it is not too late or too egotistical or too selfish or too silly to work on your creativity.

All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.

It is important to remember that at first blush, going sane feels just like going crazy.

We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.

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