There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

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

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

Love is not love if it is compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.

There is not one pink flower, or even fifty pink flowers, but hundreds. Snowflakes, of course, are the ultimate exercise in sheer creative glee. No two alike. This creator looks suspiciously like someone who just might send us support for our creative ventures.